Subject: bug#1309 closed by Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> (Re: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations)

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#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

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>From [email-masked] Wed Nov  5 23:00:53 2008
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: Joshua Richardson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:01:00 -0500

> Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be
> documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the
> startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that
> also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference
> to the startup screen.  I'm referring to documentation at:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html

I've made some changes to the Emacs manual in CVS that describes
inhibit-startup-screen more prominently.  These changes will appear on
the website when Emacs 23 is released.  Thanks for the bug report.

>From [email-masked] Wed Nov  5 14:06:13 2008
From: Joshua Richardson <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:05:11 -0800
Subject: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs
 customizations
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Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be documented h=
ow it would be possible to start emacs without showing the startup screen. =
 There was one reference to using -quick, but that also seemed to bypass cu=
stomizations.  There was not other reference to the startup screen.  I'm re=
ferring to documentation at:  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html=
_mono/emacs.html

Thanks, --josh

Joshua Richardson

Engineering Manager

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