Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Juri Linkov]

While trying to use the command line option `--no-splash' I noticed one bug:
using it with some other options (for instance, "emacs -debug-init --no-splash")
causes Emacs to fail with the following error message:

command-line-1: Unknown option `-debug-init'

That's because `--no-splash' has a higher priority that options processed
in `command-line', but it is processed later in `command-line-1', thus
preventing options with lower priorities from processing in `command-line'.

The following patch should fix this bug if I understand the priority
system correctly.  It decreases the priority of `--no-splash' to the low
priority 3, but which is higher than the priority 1 of the action options
("-f", "-file", etc) processed in the same function `command-line-1'.
It also adds `--no-desktop' with the same low priority.

Index: src/emacs.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/emacs.c,v
retrieving revision 1.407
diff -u -r1.407 emacs.c
--- src/emacs.c 29 Aug 2007 05:27:54 -0000      1.407
+++ src/emacs.c 22 Sep 2007 22:52:18 -0000
@@ -1822,7 +1822,6 @@
   { "-q", "--no-init-file", 50, 0 },
   { "-no-init-file", 0, 50, 0 },
   { "-no-site-file", "--no-site-file", 40, 0 },
-  { "-no-splash", "--no-splash", 40, 0 },
   { "-u", "--user", 30, 1 },
   { "-user", 0, 30, 1 },
   { "-debug-init", "--debug-init", 20, 0 },
@@ -1857,6 +1856,8 @@
   { "-hb", "--horizontal-scroll-bars", 5, 0 },
   { "-vb", "--vertical-scroll-bars", 5, 0 },
   { "-color", "--color", 5, 0},
+  { "-no-splash", "--no-splash", 3, 0 },
+  { "-no-desktop", "--no-desktop", 3, 0 },
   /* These have the same priority as ordinary file name args,
      so they are not reordered with respect to those.  */
   { "-L", "--directory", 0, 1 },

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/