Re: First character beeps screen sometimes

[Aaron Meurer]

The answer is (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) (in your .emacs file), in
case anyone is interested.

Aaron Meurer

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com> wrote:
> M-x apropos RET splash.*screen RET
>
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> On Mar 11, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 11.3.2012 um 18:53 schrieb Matt McClure:
>>>
>>>> --no-site-file would eliminate that variable, correct?
>>>
>>> And only this file. As you wrote your own init file, made non-existing with 
>>> -q, is OK, so it could be the system's init file that causes beeping. But 
>>> it can also be that somewhere in the site Lisp directory inappropriate 
>>> files are lying around. Developing GNU Emacs 24 has more specific options:
>>>
>>> --no-init-file, -q          load neither ~/.emacs nor default.el
>>> --no-site-file              do not load site-start.el
>>> --no-site-lisp, -nsl        do not add site-lisp directories to load-path
>>> --quick, -Q                 equivalent to:
>>>                              -q --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --no-splash
>>
>> This is it!  --no-splash removes the problem.  Apparently, the splash
>> screen is "loaded" even though I can't see it, and takes up the first
>> keypress.
>>
>> Fortunately, this is easy to work-around.  I just have to disable the
>> splash screen in my .emacs file.  Any idea how to do this btw (I
>> didn't find a setting for it in M-x customize)?
>>
>> Should I M-x report-emacs-bug this?
>>
>> Aaron Meruer
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, you could use this snippet to record in *Messages* buffer the files 
>>> that are loaded. This has to be executed at first, maybe directly from the 
>>> command line:
>>>
>>>        (defadvice load (before debug-log activate)
>>>          (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Loade now: %s" (ad-get-arg 0)))
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>>  Pete
>>>
>>> Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and 
>>> you've depleted the lake.
>>>