Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > The original proposal read to me that the original splash screen would
   > be something different when you have .emacs, or when you do not.

   So is yours, no?

I was thnking, where >> is the part that gets added when there is no
.emacs -- this keeps existing behaviour, and isn't as intrusive.  It
could be listed under Useful tasks too.

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