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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Michael Lachmann wrote:

> I have a small problem with the 'about texmacs' help that pops up the 
> first time you use a new version of TeXmacs.
> I set up a short script for users (who are not so familiar with 
> texmacs or unix), to go to a certain directory, and then open texmacs. 
> Then they can simply click 'load file', and load a file from that 
> directory.
> The problem is that if they open texmacs for the first time, 'about 
> texmacs' opens.

You can probably hack around this by means of copying a full .TeXmacs
directory in the home dir of your users before they first start TeXmacs.

The nonexistence of a .TeXmacs directory is precisely what triggers
loading the 'about texmacs' help, etc. The .TeXmacs dir you copy
in the home dir of your users should be stripped out of all the
user-specific information : create one in your directory, then
grep recursively the files that contain your user name, and remove
all these files. Then this user-specific stripped .TeXmacs becomes
the one you can use for initializing the .TeXmacs of your users.

You could write a global script for running TeXmacs approximately this way :
<<
#!/bin/bash
if [-f ~/.TeXmacs]; # if ~/.TeXmacs doesn't exist ; I'm not sure about 
the bash
                   # syntax, spaces, shoul we use -f or -x, etc., so 
check this.
  cp -r /home/smith/dot_TeXmacs ~/.TeXmacs
fi
texmacs.orig $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10
>>

Best, Henri