Suppress or Customize Intro Message in Fish Shell

Question

Is it possible to remove the intro message in fish shell:

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell

Type help for instructions on how to use

Answer 1

Warning: No longer works since fish 2.4.0—see Kevin's answer for the correct contemporary solution.

If there is no environment variable named "fish_greeting", then nothing will be printed. By default, there is a fish_greeting variable. You can erase this:

set --erase fish_greeting