From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoiding the cover page - emacs 28 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:20:58 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87pnfhx52d.fsf@local.lan> References: <87v9paw6tu.fsf@local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="43768"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:24BqLxeMiXxVEWfX30v7NSl/AgY= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 20:21:47 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1isXBj-000BMB-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:21:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1isXBi-0001hg-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:21:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1isXB6-0001Gf-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1isXB3-0007q4-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:57852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1isXB2-0007p8-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1isXB0-000AOm-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:21:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244311 Archived-At: Corwin Brust writes: > I think you want > > (inhibit-splash-screen t) [...] Robert Pluim writes: [...] > inhibit-startup-screen is a variable defined in `startup.el'. > Its value is t > Original value was nil > > This variable has the following aliases: `inhibit-splash-screen', > `inhibit-startup-message'. > You can customize this variable. > Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.1. > Documentation: > Non-nil inhibits the startup screen. Thank you both for the tip... and for these full details > This is for use in your personal init file (but NOT site-start.el), > once you are familiar with the contents of the startup screen. I'm on a single user machine for many years and over time have slipped stuff into site-start.el that doesn't really belong there. .. It acts sort of like a personal init in my case...