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Re: Initial splash screen
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Stephen Berman |
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Re: Initial splash screen |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:19:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:43:01 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> This may have been suggested before (I haven't searched the archives
>> for it), but since the issue has been raised again, what about this:
>> show the splash screen the first time the user invokes Emacs (even
>> with a file name) and ask whether to show it on the next invocation.
>
> This is a bad idea since the splash screen contains quite a bit of
> _useful_ information,
Indeed, but once the user has learned that information, she may not
wish to be reminded of it at each invocation; my proposal amounts to
letting users set inhibit-splash-screen to t, but in the immediate
context of being presented with the useful information they should
know, effectively making them decide that they know the information.
> and starting Emacs without a filename gives us a
> frame where nothing useful can be displayed yet.
Well, that's what being debated in the thread I forked off of; many
people do find an initial *scratch* buffer useful.
> So there is no point in not showing the splash screen indefinitely if
> we are called without file name.
If by `indefinitely' you mean upon every invocation, again, the point
is the same as the reason for having inhibit-splash-screen, whose
effect is not constrained to starting Emacs with a file name.
> But _with_ a file name, the situation is different, and we should
> cater for it differently.
I don't see such a difference: the information in the splash screen
should be learned even if a user always starts Emacs with a file name
(and once the information is learned, the splash screen need not
appear any more, even if you start Emacs without a file name).
Steve Berman
- Re: A wish, a plea, (continued)
- Re: A wish, a plea, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/06/22
- Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen,
Stephen Berman <=
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Richard Stallman, 2007/06/23
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/23
- Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/23
- Re: Initial splash screen, Stephen Berman, 2007/06/23
- Re: Initial splash screen, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/23