Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments

[Robert J. Chassell]

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.

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    Robert J. Chassell                  address@hidden
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