Re: Initial splash screen is no longer displayed

[Sven Joachim]

A few days ago, I wrote:
> I experience a strange bug with this pretest version:
> Emacs no longer displays the initial splash screen and the scratch
> message ("This buffer is for notes...") under X. I say "strange"
> because I really don't understand what is going on here. My
> observations are:
>
> - The problem does not occur if Emacs is started with the "-q" option.
>
> - The problem does not occur if Emacs is started on a text terminal or
>   with the "-nw" option.
>
> - The problem does not occur with Emacs 21.

I tried to track down this problem by successively removing stuff from
my ~/.emacs and was successful. The offending lisp expression which
inhibits the startup message is (server-start). After looking in
startup.el, I noticed that this is actually intentional, because
startup.el mentions:

   ;; Don't display startup screen if init file
   ;; has started some sort of server.
        
The reason why I only noticed the missing splash screen under X is
that my ~/.emacs only starts the Emacs server under X. :-)

Can anybody explain to me what the reason is to suppress the startup
message if Emacs starts a process on startup? I don' quite understand
it.

Regards,

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 Sven Joachim