> On Aug 2, 2025, at 1:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Sean Devlin >> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:15:36 -0500 >> >> This is a patch adding a new user option to suppress Calc’s startup >> message. >> >> By default, Calc prints a message like this during startup: >> >> "Welcome to the GNU Emacs Calculator! Press ? or M-x calc-help-prefix >> for help, q to quit" >> >> I find this a bit distracting, so I’d like to be able to silence it. The >> attached patch adds an option to allow this along with a small test >> harness and documentation in the NEWS file. >> >> Please let me know if any changes are needed to the patch. > > Thanks. > > Christopher, any comments? (I hope you don't mind being involved in > maintenance of Calc by way of reviewing patches of others.) > >> From 1ad1f17b6c9326ffc009c6de5c5f2b9929014f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Sean Devlin >> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:05:48 -0500 >> Subject: [PATCH] New user option to inhibit Calc startup message >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> >> * etc/NEWS: Document the new option. >> * lisp/calc/calc.el (calc-inhibit-startup-message): New option to >> inhibit Calc’s startup message. >> (calc): Respect the option in Calc’s startup code. >> * test/lisp/calc/calc-tests.el (ert): Require ert-x for >> 'ert-with-message-capture'. >> (calc-inhibit-startup-message): Test the new user option. > > Should this new option be in the Calc manual as well? If you agree > and send an updated patch for that, then please (a) mention the bug > number in the commit log message, and (b) mark the NEWS entry as > "+++", to indicate that the relevant manuals have been updated. Hi Eli, I’ve taken a stab at this. Please see the attached patch, and let me know if the language or formatting need any revision. Thanks!