frankschmitt.org:

…and that my former boss had read it:

Computers make copy-and-paste really easy, so every programmer falls into the trap once in a while. The lesson you eventually learn is that code always changes, always always always, and as soon as you have to change the same thing in N places, where N is more than 1, you’ll have earned your scar.

The new emacs included with OpenSuSE 10.3 includes a “feature” that displays this irritating little splash screen when you’re trying to edit a file. It’s almost irritating enough to switch to vi.Fortunately, there’s an easy way to disable it. Create or edit the file called .emacs in your home directory:

$ vi ~/.emacs

and add the following line:

(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)

and voila, it’s gone for good.