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Sebastian Panknin <panknin@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:


> this behavior seems to be a new feature. To prevent it you can
> set inhibit-splash-screen to t in your .emacs file
>
> (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)

Thanks for this, I have added this line. I have a morbid loathing of
splash screens anyway :-)

> But note that the splash screen is the even gone if you open emacs
> without a command of file aguemnt.
>
> However the commandline switch has the same effect.

Thanks very much for your assistance,

         Andrew

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