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24.0.94; Splash screen causes first character to beep with emacsclient

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Message #27 received at 10996-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10996-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10996: 24.0.94;
	Splash screen causes first character to beep with emacsclient
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:55:16 -0400

> Indeed, the problem is that the key is read using the
> splash-screen-keymap.  My commit is not the actual cause since it only
> affects command remapping, and if you try his recipe and hit `q' (which
> is not using command-remapping), you'll see that it does something even
> more interesting.  I.e. the same problem existed with `q' before
> my change.

I installed the change below which doesn't actually fix the underlying
problem but works around it by disabling the splash screen code when
running as daemon (it doesn't get displayed anyway, so there's no point
running it).


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/startup.el'
--- lisp/startup.el	2012-03-27 06:45:12 +0000
+++ lisp/startup.el	2012-04-10 17:51:56 +0000
@@ -2341,6 +2341,7 @@
     (if (or inhibit-startup-screen
 	    initial-buffer-choice
 	    noninteractive
+            (daemonp)
 	    inhibit-x-resources)
 
 	;; Not displaying a startup screen.  If 3 or more files
@@ -2383,9 +2384,7 @@
       ;; (with-no-warnings
       ;; 	(setq menubar-bindings-done t))
 
-      (if (> file-count 0)
-	  (display-startup-screen t)
-	(display-startup-screen nil)))))
+      (display-startup-screen (> file-count 0)))))
 
 (defun command-line-normalize-file-name (file)
   "Collapse multiple slashes to one, to handle non-Emacs file names."

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