From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up by pressing a key as it used to be Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:15:56 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fv83uc6b.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8a7f2e92-6109-4ca8-b997-d190e35a21f6@googlegroups.com> <5268f16e-37a2-4943-9b30-24b4ae73b076@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428948931 6925 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2015 18:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:15:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 13 20:15:24 2015 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 1YhitH-0000Ii-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhitG-0000yB-Kl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:15:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SEQ9LXWlWdrjhaazNNtZSzMuMXg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211410 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:103693 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > I have as well (setq initial-scratch-message nil) Here is what I use. In particular, note the `inhibit-startup-echo-area-message' which you have to supply your *username* to make work! Read the help to realize why. It seems people put a lot of faith in that message :) ;; no fanfare / init (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (setq initial-scratch-message nil) (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") (kill-buffer "*scratch*") (call-interactively 'w3m) (cd "~") -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573