Unable to hide welcome screen in Emacs

Question

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 wi         


        

Answer 1

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

Alternatively you could:

alias emacs='emacs --no-splash'