From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to hide the startup echo area message? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:04 -0400 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Message-ID: <4829c426$1@kcnews01> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210697024 23365 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2008 16:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:43:44 +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 May 13 18:44:21 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 1JvxZ5-0002Ed-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 18:41:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvxYM-00041l-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:38 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <8b2c2db0-e058-4c06-9672-a3dcaddbcda2@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: kcnews01 1210696742 129.34.20.19 (13 May 2008 17:39:02 +0100) Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!kcnewsm02.prserv.net!kcnewsm01.prserv.net!prserv.net!kcnews01!not-for-mail Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158604 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:53970 Archived-At: My generic answer to emacs startup questions is to use one of the client / server packages, gnuclient or emacsclient. I typically start emacs and leave it running for weeks or months at a time, connecting new clients as needed. Besides eliminating your zillion messages, starting a client is much faster then starting emacs. Bruce C. Miller wrote: > 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?