GNU bug report logs - #1309
no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joshua Richardson <jric <at> yahoo-inc.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:15:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Joshua Richardson <jric <at> yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: 1309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        "bug-gnu-emacs\@gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:23:10 -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

The startup screen itself has a link to "customize startup", where the
second entry is "inhibit startup screen".

Do you think we should try and make it more prominent?  If so how?


        Stefan
This bug report was last modified 16 years and 197 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.