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Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments |
Date: |
23 May 2002 19:34:51 -0400 |
[ thank you for not CCing me ]
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 08:39, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> 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.
I don't understand; why wouldn't the sysadmins just frob site-start.el?
> --eval '(setq inhibit-startup-message t)' \
How about the following patch, which adds a --nosplash argument?
> 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.
I agree, it's confusing, and another good reason to revert to the
previous behavior :)
nosplash.patch
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Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/24