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

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Message #10 received at 1309-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Joshua Richardson <jric <at> yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: 1309-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
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.

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