Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

[Romain Francoise]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think any change has been made in this recently,
> but there was a change a year or two ago to display
> the splash screen even if the user specifies files to visit,
> and that change could also have affected this case.

This change is probably the culprit:

2005-08-20  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>

        * startup.el (command-line-1): Don't suppress startup screen
        due to existing processes.

Starting Gnus opens NNTP connections which appear in the process list.

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