(defvar startup-screen-inhibit-startup-screen nil)
-;; FIXME? Why does this get such weirdly extreme treatment, when the
-;; more important inhibit-startup-screen does not.
+;; The mechanism used to ensure that only end users can disable this
+;; message is not complex. Clearly, it is possible for a determined
+;; system administrator to inhibit this message anyway, but at least
+;; they will do so with knowledge of why the Emacs developers think
+;; this is a bad idea.
(defcustom inhibit-startup-echo-area-message nil
"Non-nil inhibits the initial startup echo area message.
-Setting this variable takes effect
-only if you do it with the customization buffer
-or if your init file contains a line of this form:
+
+The startup message is in the echo area as it provides information
+about GNU Emacs and the GNU system in general, which we want all
+users to see. As this is the least intrusive startup message,
+this variable gets specialized treatment to prevent the message
+from being disabled site-wide by systems administrators, while
+still allowing individual users to do so.
+
+Setting this variable takes effect only if you do it with the
+customization buffer or if your init file contains a line of this
+form:
(setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message \"YOUR-USER-NAME\")
If your init file is byte-compiled, use the following form
instead:
:initialize #'custom-initialize-delay)
(defun normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path ()
- "Add all subdirectories of `default-directory' to `load-path'.
+ "Recursively add all subdirectories of `default-directory' to `load-path'.
More precisely, this uses only the subdirectories whose names
start with letters or digits; it excludes any subdirectory named `RCS'
or `CVS', and any subdirectory that contains a file named `.nosearch'."
(when frame
(let* ((img (create-image (fancy-splash-image-file)))
(image-height (and img (cdr (image-size img nil frame))))
- ;; We test frame-height so that, if the frame is split
- ;; by displaying a warning, that doesn't cause the normal
- ;; splash screen to be used.
- (frame-height (1- (frame-height frame))))
+ ;; We test frame-height and not window-height so that,
+ ;; if the frame is split by displaying a warning, that
+ ;; doesn't cause the normal splash screen to be used.
+ ;; We subtract 2 from frame-height to account for the
+ ;; echo area and the mode line.
+ (frame-height (- (frame-height frame) 2)))
(> frame-height (+ image-height 19)))))))