Re: First character beeps screen sometimes

[Matt McClure]

M-x apropos RET splash.*screen RET

Matt McClure
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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.
>>