Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Juri Linkov]

> - First and most annoying: starting Emacs with an file to visit as
>   argument no longer works as expected.  Without doing any configuration
>   you always get the new splash screen and of cause C-l or starting
>   editing doesn't make it go away.  You can switch to the buffer with
>   the file using C-x C-b, but the splash screen doesn't tell you that.

Using C-l to quit the startup screen was a perverted idea.  C-l is used
to *redisplay* the current buffer, not to switch to other buffer.
So the first key Emacs taught the beginner to type was misleading.

> I would like to have the old behavior back:  if a file name was given
> on the command line the user definitely wants to edit that file, and
> so any editing/movement/redraw command should switch to that files
> buffer immediately.

The old behavior was dangerous.  Typing a key on a buffer that you don't
see may lead to disastrous results.

> In case people don't agree on that, the splash screen should at least
> mention how to enter the buffer.
>
> - Second, and maybe even worse: None of the settings for
>   initial-buffer-choice restores the old behavior.  One might expect,
>   that setting initial-buffer-choice to t (open *scratch* buffer)
>   would be the right choice, but it isn't.  If set that way, the
>   annoying behavior described above stays with the only differences,
>   that the *scratch* buffer is opened and stays, even if a file to
>   edit was given on start-up.

If we all convince Richard that displaying the startup screen instead of
a file is a bad thing, any changes won't be necessary.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/