Ubuntu
emacs25 package

  1. Bug #405498
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 405498

Revision history for this message
jtappin (sjt) wrote : Re: [Bug 405498] Re: emacs22 (X11) "don't show startup screen again" fails
  • .emacs Edit (9.7 KiB, text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=".emacs")

On 02/08/2009, era <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is this somehow specific to KDE? Does it matter whether you use the
> keyboard or the mouse to select the "Dismiss this startup screen" link?
> Do you have anything in your .emacs file which could be causing this?
> (Can you create a shell script which runs emacs -q, and select that as
> the application to open the file with? That would cause it to not read
> your .emacs file.)
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/emacs -q "$@"

I've only tried the mouse, and I've not used anything other than KDE.
When I use the script, then there is only the "dismiss this startup
screen" but no "never show it again" button.

> In fact, the error message sort of suggests that you might have an error
> in your .emacs file. If it doesn't contain anything sensitive, do you
> think you could attach it here?

Done.
From the date stamp on it (July 04) I think it may well be the default
.emacs from Debian Sarge (which had emacs 21.4.1).