Re: file name as argument in the command line

[Tim X]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:

> Subject: Re: file name as argument in the command line
>
> Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:
>
>> On 2007-08-31, Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>>> %emacs --version
>>> GNU Emacs 22.1.50.2
>>>
>>> I recently installed this one from the CVS repository. Now when I run
>>>
>>> %emacs file
>>>
>>> I get the buffer *GNU Emacs* that looks like
>>>
>>> Welcome to GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU operating system.
>>>
>>> Get help           <help>
>>> Emacs manual       <help> r     Browse manuals     <help> i
>>> Emacs tutorial     <help> t     Undo changes       C-x u
>>> Buy manuals        <help> RET   Exit Emacs         C-x C-c
>>> Activate menubar     M-`
>>>
>>> (...)
>>>
>>> How can I convince emacs to not display this help buffer? The node
>>> ``Emacs Invocation'' says that
>>>
>>> ``The last file name on your command line becomes the current buffer;''
>>>
>>> but doesn't seem to be true.
>>
>> Look up splash-screen in the news file for your version. If you do
>> anything the desired buffer will appear. See also the variable
>> inhibit-splash-screen.
>
> It behaved this way in my previous version, whatever it was. Now I tried
> moving the point around, I pressed C-l (I think there was a version
> which would kill the splash screen with C-l). 
>

I observed this with one of the CVS snapshots I retrieved. Unfortunately,
the 'splash' screen in that version didn't go away as soon as you hit any
key - it was a propper buffer that had to be killed to get rid of it. 

I noticed something about this in the NEWS file. However, the latest
version of the sources doesn't have this behavior and seems to have gone
back to the old expected behavior. I don't know if this was just an error
in one of the CVS versions that has been fixed or a new 'feature', that was
subsequently removed. 

Tim

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