From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bruce C. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to hide the startup echo area message? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <12753ed0-2983-44c5-83a0-c004f4656de4@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> References: <8b2c2db0-e058-4c06-9672-a3dcaddbcda2@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210717455 647 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2008 22:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 22:24:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 00:24:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jw2v7-0007oZ-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 00:24:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jw2uO-00051r-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 18:23:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.60.229.119 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1210712395 3678 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2008 20:59:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.60.229.119; posting-account=ybUvWgoAAACINhdLwoplh5eJCxz2QgF4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158608 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:23:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53976 Archived-At: On May 13, 11:12 am, bojohan+n...@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockg=E5rd) wrote: > "Bruce C. Miller" writes: > > > When I start up Gnu Emacs, I see a message that reads "For information > > about the GNU Profject and its goals, type C-h C-p." in the minibuffer/ > > echo area. > > > Having already read this story (several times, in fact), I find this > > message rather annoying after seeing it for the zillionth time, but I > > haven't been able to turn this off. Can it be done? > > C-h v inhibit-startup-echo-area-message > > -- > Johan Bockg=E5rd Precisely what I needed. Thanks. :)