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Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
From: |
Manoj Srivastava |
Subject: |
Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:28:26 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:35:58 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:16:16 +0200, Kim F Storm <address@hidden> said:
>>
>>> AFAICS, the only thing we can do to prevent that is to find a
>>> reasonably non-annoying way to "say what we want to say".
>>
>> I am not sure I understand this viewpoint. I have been using Emacs
>> since '88, so I am pretty "seasoned" -- but I don't seem to see the
>> issue you are raising; and I am wondering if we are looking at the
>> same thing.
> Just to make sure we are: we are talking about the case where Emacs is
> called with explicit file names given on the command line and instead
> of displaying those files displays the splash screen.
>> What I saw was a splash screen -- but it came with a nice _dismiss_
>> button, and even a checkbox that said "don't show this again". This
>> is not much of an annoyance -- since it only ever appears once,
> Per session.
Hmm. I am seeing two different behaviours here, which might be
the cause of some confusion. When I just call:
% emacs /tmp/foo.sh
I get a split screen; the top half has a splash screen, with these
lines at the bottom:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
If an Emacs session crashed recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET
to recover the files you were editing.
Dismiss [] Don't show this message again.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The bottom half has the /tmp/foo.sh buffer.
I imagine that if I check the box, and then it dismiss, I'll
never see the splash again.
Now, if I start emacs -nw,
% emacs -nw /tmp/bar.sh
I am still getting the split again, except that there does not seem to
be a dismiss button, nor is there a checkbox.
So, I find the X based splash screen not to be an annoyance; but
I do find the emacs -nw splash screen deficient.
This is the latest CVS emacs in Miles Bader's GNU/Arch mirror.
Is this the behaviour you see?
>> As someone who has influence with one of the much despised GNU/Linux
>> distribution makers, I can say your fears are somewhat overblown.
> As long as we are talking about the same thing. Are we?
Well, I think turning off the splash screen for Debian is not
something that will happen very readily.
manoj
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- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., (continued)
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/22
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/24
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sean O'Rourke, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...,
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- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/22
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/23
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/25
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/25
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Mathias Megyei, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/22