From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1022050493.16292.4101.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022157753 30584 127.0.0.1 (23 May 2002 12:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17ArvM-0007xB-00 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 14:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17AsAl-0002Te-00 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 14:58:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17ArvY-0003jk-00; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ars5-000399-00 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Thu, 23 May 2002 12:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <1022050493.16292.4101.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 22 May 2002 02:54:52 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4302 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4302 Colin Walters wrote: ... When testing ibuffer and other packages, I often do: emacs -q --no-site-file -f ibuffer and it's annoying to have to hit a key to get past the splash screen. I don't know for sure, but suspect that the rational for the change is that many installations for novices include a --funcall argument provided by a system administrator. Nonetheless, the novices should still have the opportunity of seeing the splash screen since that tells them how to get started. . You might change your test script to: emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)' \ --eval '(setq inhibit-startup-message t)' \ --funcall=ibuffer Incidentally, on using the CVS snapshot of GNU Emacs 21.2.50.138 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2002-05-22 without the inhibit-startup-message variable set to t, I found that the text inserted into the Splash screen by ibuffer is confusing. Because of the font, I could not determine whether the command to start editing your file was to type C-1, C-l, C-I, or C-|. The command looked like C-|. When running emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)' --funcall=ibuffer the splash screen says Type C-| to begin editing your file. After typing C-l, I did not find myself in my file, but in the ibuffer directory. This switch makes sense to me as an expert, but a novice might expect Emacs to present the most recently edited file from the previous session or all the files from files from the previous session. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com