Re: file name as argument in the command line

[Tim X]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:
>
>> Subject: Re: file name as argument in the command line
>>
>> Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:
>>
>>> On 2007-08-31, Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>>>> %emacs --version
>>>> GNU Emacs 22.1.50.2
>>>>
>>>> I recently installed this one from the CVS repository. Now when I run
>>>>
>>>> %emacs file
>>>>
>>>> I get the buffer *GNU Emacs* that looks like
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU operating system.
>>>>
>>>> Get help           <help>
>>>> Emacs manual       <help> r     Browse manuals     <help> i
>>>> Emacs tutorial     <help> t     Undo changes       C-x u
>>>> Buy manuals        <help> RET   Exit Emacs         C-x C-c
>>>> Activate menubar     M-`
>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>> How can I convince emacs to not display this help buffer? The node
>>>> ``Emacs Invocation'' says that
>>>>
>>>> ``The last file name on your command line becomes the current buffer;''
>>>>
>>>> but doesn't seem to be true.
>>>
>>> Look up splash-screen in the news file for your version. If you do
>>> anything the desired buffer will appear. See also the variable
>>> inhibit-splash-screen.
>>
>> It behaved this way in my previous version, whatever it was. Now I tried
>> moving the point around, I pressed C-l (I think there was a version
>> which would kill the splash screen with C-l). 
>>
>
> I observed this with one of the CVS snapshots I retrieved. Unfortunately,
> the 'splash' screen in that version didn't go away as soon as you hit any
> key - it was a propper buffer that had to be killed to get rid of it. 
>
> I noticed something about this in the NEWS file. However, the latest
> version of the sources doesn't have this behavior and seems to have gone
> back to the old expected behavior. I don't know if this was just an error
> in one of the CVS versions that has been fixed or a new 'feature', that was
> subsequently removed. 
>

I have to correct myself - I was wrong, that behavior of the splash screen
staying in place and not going away as soon as you hit a key is still in
place with current CVS version of emacs. However, it looks like this
behavior can be customized.

Tim

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