Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Davis Herring]

> When I want to do this, I start Emacs and then visit the file.
> What's the advantage of specifying the file name as a command arg?

$ type -a foobar
foobar is /usr/bin/foobar
$ file `type -p foobar`
/usr/bin/foobar: a bash script text executable
$ emacs !$

After the second command, the user thinks "Oh!  I can view/edit this!". 
Especially as the path can be arbitrarily long, it can be quite useful to
have the shell (or file(1), or...) generate it.

Davis

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