Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments

[Robert J. Chassell]

       Up until fairly recently, if you gave Emacs any command line arguments
       (e.g. a filename, or -f function), Emacs wouldn't display the splash
       screen on startup.

   I made this change so that users who always run Emacs with a file name
   would see the splash screen.  It used to be some of them would never
   see it, and never learn the info it offers.

This is a good reason: people who start Emacs with a file name really,
really need to learn about Emacs, since starting with a file name
generally indicates a wasteful and wrong way to approach Emacs.  

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    Robert J. Chassell                  address@hidden
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