On Aug 2, 2025, at 9:51 AM, Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org> wrote:

On Aug 2, 2025, at 1:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
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.)

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From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:05:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] New user option to inhibit Calc startup message
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* 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!

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