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

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 will help.

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