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About starting and initializing an Emacs session

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How to detect if emacs starts with a file?

I would like to be able to implement the following logic. (if (developer-opened-file-with-emacs) (do nothing, get on with working as fast as possible) (load fancy splash screen that may take …
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How to replace the default contents of the scratch buffer with the contents of a file (if it...

I would like emacs to check for a ~/emacs.d/scratch.txt and use it's contents instead of the default message when emacs starts. How can this be done?
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How to open multiple files without automatically activating the "Buffer List" split?

Running emacs with multiple files automatically opens the "Buffer List" split-window. eg: emacs -Q *.txt Opens a split window, one which contains a list of buffers. How can multiple files be open …
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