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Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments |
Date: |
Thu, 23 May 2002 12:39:07 +0000 (UTC) |
Colin Walters <address@hidden> 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 address@hidden
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/24