From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:11:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2f94dfc0-17fb-409c-9734-511cf33810e5@googlegroups.com> References: <84fvcooiui.fsf@tm6592.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418145330 20470 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 17:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:15:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 18:15:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyONe-00042t-3I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:15:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyONd-0006Zu-HA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:15:21 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.241.2 with SMTP id we2mr36293699obc.38.1418145101789; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:11:41 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.51.15.133 with SMTP id fo5mr360814igd.3.1418145101569; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:11:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no6473907igd.0!news-out.google.com!jh1ni6649igb.0!nntp.google.com!h15no16253940igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <84fvcooiui.fsf@tm6592.fritz.box> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.31.173; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.31.173 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:11:41 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209213 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101491 Archived-At: On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:34:25 PM UTC+5:30, Marco Wahl wrote: > chickenkinwing wrote: > > > By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of > > "-- Press Enter here to update --". > > > > I find it a major annoyance for me. I have to remove them manually. > > > > Is there a way to automatically get rid of these lines (to make scratch buffer empty) when the *scratch* buffer starts? > > > > What about M-x customize-variable initial-scratch-message? Does this help? Also look at the variable inhibit-startup-message