RE: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen?

[Drew Adams]

> The latter solves the problem partially:
> (find-file "~/untitled")
> (setq initial-buffer-choice "~/untitled")
> 
> will indeed display an "untitled" buffer (no more splash 
> screen), however, dropping a file on the Emacs icon no longer 
> opens that file but also displays the "untitled" buffer (to 
> be fair: I never mentioned that this drag & drop feature was 
> desirable in our case).
> 
> Without "initial-buffer-choice" drag & drop works as expected 
> - but yields a split screen with the splash screen in the 
> lower part (and a full splash screen if the Emacs icon is 
> just clicked).
> 
> So it seems that there is no easy way to configure Emacs 23.2 
> to not display the splash screen (split or full screen), 
> apart from using a "--no-splash" start option or a user 
> specific .emacs file where inhibit-startup-screen does work 
> (if one still wants to have drag & drop support for the Emacs 
> icon). This is not a big deal for individual users, but still 
> a bit awkward if you want to have a ready-to-run-distribution 
> for a specific purpose.
> 
> It seems to me that it would be a good thing if 
> inhibit-startup-screen would also work in a site-start.el-file.

I don't think I have the answer. If you do not find a solution, consider filing
an Emacs bug (or enhancement request), using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.