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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.

HTH,

Tyler