Re: making Emacs 22 startup like Emacs 21

[Sven Joachim]

Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid> writes:

> I find the new Emacs 22 startup behaviour quite annoying in that it puts
> up a splash screen even when Emacs is invoked with a file name.  I've
> found the inhibit-splash-screen variable to inhibit the splash screen
> entirely, but I'd like to keep the splash screen if Emacs is invoked
> without arguments - just inhibit it if a file is specified.  Is there
> any way to get this to work like Emacs 21?

I've just put these 2¢ into my .emacs, which seem to do the trick:

(when (> (length command-line-args) 1)
  (setq inhibit-splash-screen t))

Cheers,
       Sven