Re: making Emacs 22 startup like Emacs 21

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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)

That doesn't distinguish file names from other command line arguments
such as options.  A better test might be

        (> (length (buffer-list) 2)

assuming that with no file name arguments just the *scratch* and
*Messages* buffers exist.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA