Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[tomas]

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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:40:53PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mathias Megyei <address@hidden>

[...]

> >  > When I want to do this, I start Emacs and then visit the file.
> >  > What's the advantage of specifying the file name as a command arg?
> > 
> >  It saves key strokes.
> 
> You mean, the 1-key SPC vs the 3-key "C-x C-f"?  I think these savings
> are too small to be significant.

To elaborate Mathias's point (he expressed it as "save time", but I
think the core is still unclear), it is not 1 keystroke versus 3 keystrokes.

It's rather

  emacs <filename>

versus

  emacs [wait until Emacs is up] C-x C-f <filename>

This wait time in the middle of doing something is IMHO the annoying
part here. For me, it is the main reason to just use vim when working
from a shell. And that's why the problem doesn't show up for people who
always work from "within" Emacs.

The issue becomes somewhat grotesque when calling Emacs from some other
process, e.g. via the EDITOR shell variable (that's why I have
EDITOR=vim in my environment).

YMMV, of course.

Regards
- -- tomás
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