Re: emacs start page

[B. T. Raven]

ilovemiami wrote:
> I am using fedora 8 right now. I got an annoying problem in the emacs
> come with the distribution.
>
> Everytime I start emacs to open a file, either old or new,I always got
> a default emacs message page. The page will dispaear when I press any
> key. That is annoying to me. Is there any way I can disable this
> feature?
>
> Thanks.

If this is same screen you see when you do Menu>Help>About Emacs, then 
adding (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) to your .emacs file will suppress 
its display (and also the 3 info lines in *scratch*

Ed