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Subject: Re: Why do some of my emacsen always show the "Welcome to..."
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On 2007-12-19, Tyler Smith wrote:

> On 2007-12-19, Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>>
>> I find this welcome screen really annoying when I pass one or more
>> filename arguments to emacs.  How can I suppress it?
>
> Customize the inhibit-splash-screen variable to non-nil to turn off
> the welcome screen 'permanently'. Otherwise, you can use the
> command-line option '--no-splash' to inhibit the message on a
> case-by-case basis.

Oops!  Not long after my post, I discovered the answer: putting 
(setq initial-splash-screen t) in the ~/.emacs file.

Thanks.