Re: Problem with splash screen and emacsclient

[Lennart Borgman]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I have asked the question below at least once before on the list (but 
> then I mentioned gnuclient):
>
> If Emacs is showing the splash screen and you open a file with 
> emacsclient then Emacs shows that it is in some kind of recursive edit 
> mode. The mode line may look like this
>
>
>   --\-- emacsclient.c   Top L1 CVS:1.91 [(C/l)] ----------------
>
> Some commands does not work until the splash screens times out. The [] 
> disappears then from the mode line. (You can use M-x top-level to get 
> out of this state before time out.)
>
> It seems like emacs server should remove the splash screen just as 
> normal input events does. But how should that be done? The function 
> showing the splash screen is doing a (sit-for 120).


Sorry, I sent this message too early (I thought it was stuck - some 
problems with the mail server here).

I do not know yet for sure what the splash screen is waiting for. But 
the behaviour seems similar to sit-for.

I think the server should remove the splash screen and I wonder how to 
do it. Any suggestions?