From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to hide the startup echo area message? Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 00:49:45 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87iqxj87ee.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <8b2c2db0-e058-4c06-9672-a3dcaddbcda2@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210632946 20369 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 22:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:55:46 +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 00:56:22 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 1Jvgvk-0002Fs-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 00:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jvgv1-0007PL-NO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jvgtc-00074q-8k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jvgta-000742-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52026 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jvgta-00073y-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37402 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jvgta-0008Gd-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JvgtR-0002r3-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:17 +0000 Original-Received: from e178012176.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.12.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:17 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178012176.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178012176.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:afqWhu+MfKF1yIHLw1GMEheFHHA= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:53949 Archived-At: On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:29:12 -0700 (PDT) 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? Maybe (run-with-timer 1 nil #'yow) at the end of your .emacs