Unable to hide welcome screen in Emacs

emacs

I want to hide the welcome screen.

My .emacs file:

 (setq c-basic-offset 4) ; indents 4 chars
 (setq tab-width 4)          ; and 4 char wide for TAB
 (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) ; And force use of spaces
 
 (turn-on-font-lock)       ; same as syntax on in Vim
 
 (setq width (max width (+ (length str) 1)))   ;line numbers
 
 (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)         ; hide welcome screen

I have tried to run the last line of code in my .emacs unsuccessfully.

How can you hide the welcome screen in Emacs?

Léo Léopold Hertz 준영

Add the following to your $HOME/.emacs:

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

The next time you start Emacs, the welcome screen shouldn't appear. If you already have Emacs open with the welcome screen, you can kill it with C-x k (Control-x, then k).

That's the ticket. Note that inhibit-splash-screen is a relatively new name for the variable (can't remember if it's emacs 22 or 23 that introduced it). Before that, use inhibit-startup-message as Bastien says.

Actually you can just kill it by pressing q.

Tim Cooper

(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

Alternatively you could:

alias emacs='emacs --no-splash'

My emacs says that inhibit-splash-screen is an alias for inhibit-startup-screen.

In fact both inhibit-splash-screen inhibit-startup-message are just aliases for inhibit-startup-screen.

Bear in mind that you'll need to do this for every shell you use. IMO you're better off configuring the editor properly to begin with, good quickfix suggestion though.

Zack Marrapese

You can easily do it through emac's menus...

Options -> customize emacs -> top-level customization group

then select environment group, then initialization, and set inhibit startup screen to on.

I am using Emacs in terminal. I do not have those menus. How can I do the same without menus?

You can always reach the menu even when running Emacs in terminal, just press F10 or type M-x menu-bar-open.

zimbu668

In my .emacs I have (setq inhibit-startup-message t) and that works for me.

The gnu emacs manual says inhibit-startup-message is the old version and inhibit-splash-screen is the newer version. I don't know in which version that changed. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Initial-Options.html

Joshz

In Emacs 24, inhibit-splash-screen and inhibit-startup-message are alias for inhibit-startup-screen, so simply add (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) to your .emacs file will solve the problem.

Given that configuration, your startup buffer is now *scratch*, if you want to further change the default buffer, M-h v initial-buffer-choice <RET> will help.

Official document: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Startup-Summary.html

NgaNguyenDuy

You can use set initial-scratch-message variable to nil to hide the initial message or set anything you want to display your message.

(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

(setq initial-scratch-message ";; Happy Hacking")

Hope it helped.