Re: [PLUG] Turning off the splash screen in emacs 22

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Mike Chirico wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:45:04PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > So I just installed emacs 22 to give it a try.  I haven't done much
> > testing with it yet, but there's one new "feature" that already find
> > very annoying.
> > 
> > In emacs 22 every time you open a file (for instance, when writing
> > this email), it displays a splash screen until you press a key.  In
> > emacs 21 it only displayed that screen if you started emacs without
> > specifying an initial file to open.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to restore the old behavior?
> 
> In the .emacs file, add the following:
> 
> ;;disable splash screen and startup message
> (setq inhibit-startup-message t)
> (setq initial-scratch-message nil)

Thanks!  One thing though -- inhibit-startup-message also inhibits the
scratch buffer message, so the second line isn't necessary.

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of the startup
message without also eliminating the scratch message.  Oh well.

Walt

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