Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen

[Nicolas P. Rougier]

Philip K. <philipk@posteo.net> writes:


> Why www.gnu.org and not https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/?

I think it's much easier to remember www.gnu.org rather than 
www.gnu.org/software/emacs/. Once on www.gnu.org, it is easy to 
find emacs.
Also, from a purely aesthetic point of view, www.gnu.org fits 
better.

> > Any key but <escape>, <space>, <return>, "q", "x" will open
> > the about-emacs page.
> Shouldn't that be mentioned? Or at least how to close the splash 
> screen?
> Wouldn't it make more sense that most keys kill or bury the 
> buffer?

The default behavior is to fall back to the about-emacs page since 
we can suspect a more experienced user would disable this 
splash-screen anyway. There's also an idle timer (5 seconds) that 
open the about-emacs buffer.

> Also, what happens when you invoke Emacs in the shell like
>       $ emacs myfile.c
> how will the splash screen then behave?

In such case, splash screen is not shown (modulor errors in my 
code).

Nicolas