I think you want

(inhibit-splash-screen t)

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 07:38 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> I'd like to avoid the cover page emacs displays when I open it.
>
> even with an argument like `~/' or `.' emacs opens with 2 screens, the
> bottom one showing the Coverpage and the top showing the opened
> argument.
>
> I have this in  site-start.el
>
> (tool-bar-mode -1)
> (tooltip-mode -1)
> (menu-bar-mode -1)
>
> There must be something more needed.
>
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