Re: split window

[Dale Snell]

On Wed, 27 May 2015 06:56:20 +0100, in message
20150527065620.66bcc51f@JRWUBU2, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> On Tue, 26 May 2015 14:31:08 -0700
> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 26 May 2015 22:15:06 +0200, in message
> > CAMpX9QRs5AsBcDmh7i7vN=Pc_AxmirnrZXv8_a6opFxHguR6hA@mail.gmail.com,
> > Thomas Fischer wrote:
> 
> > > when I open the emacs in the shell the window is split
> > > horizontally into two parts. How can I open emacs without split.
> 
> > This shouldn't be happening.  It sounds to me like there is
> > something amiss in your init file.  Three questions:
> 
> It's more likely to be something wrong elsewhere.  It doesn't happen
> in emacs 20.2 on Solaris but does happen in emacs 23 on Ubuntu, at
> least, in emacs 23.3. It happens when I specify the first file to
> visit on the command line, e.g. 'emacs a.b'.  One window is for the
> 'about' display and the other is for the specified file. I associate
> the effect with a change from one version of Emacs to another, though
> on Ubuntu the frequency of specifying a file soared when Ubuntu
> downgraded from Gnome to Unity and Emacs was no longer on the start
> menu.

Can't help you with Solaris, I'm afraid.  It's been a good twenty
years since I had anything to do with it, and my memory has faded.

You might check your Ubuntu setup to see if you've got all the
packages that you should, and that they're all up to date.  If it
were up to me, I'd update to the latest version of emacs in the
Ubuntu repos.  Probably 24.5 or thereabouts.  Version 23 is pretty
old.

> Curiously, it doesn't happen with 'emacs -Q a.b', which instead
> displays only a window for a.b.

This is what lead me to think it was something in the init file.
Try "emacs -q your-file.here", instead.  The "-Q" inhibits the
startup screen as well as the site-init and user init files.  The
lowercase "-q" option inhibits the user init file only.

--Dale

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