HOWTO Disable that annoying Emacs Splashscreen

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.

Comments (9) left to “HOWTO Disable that annoying Emacs Splashscreen”

  1. Al wrote:

    Oh my god, what a horrible feature.
    I was almost starting to like 10.3.
    Thank you for the fix!

  2. Thorsten wrote:

    Thanks for the clear fix for disabling the emacs splash screen. I think it does not matter where I paste the fix, however, it seems to be a good idea to me to put it into the “Custum settings” which should of course read “Custom settings” :-). Last time I had to fix that was on SUSE 5x…

  3. NIC1138 wrote:

    Thank you so very much!!…

  4. Joe Philipps wrote:

    So THIS is how I get rid of that “Type C-l to begin…” crap! I thought I was going to go insane! what a frakken misfeature. Thank you for that. What’s more, Google came up with only two pages on the literal string; hopefully now, it’ll see this one as well!!

  5. Volker wrote:

    Thank you for that! I was struggling with the –no-splash option but that is working better. :)

  6. jbk wrote:

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  7. ihatethesplashscreen wrote:

    Thank you!

  8. jh wrote:

    phew! thanks.

  9. Bob Knox wrote:

    So glad this was the first page in the Google search - Thanks VERY much.

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