Re: How to hide the startup echo area message?

[Ken Goldman]

My generic answer to emacs startup questions is to use
one of the client / server packages, gnuclient or
emacsclient.

I typically start emacs and leave it running for weeks
or months at a time, connecting new clients as needed.
Besides eliminating your zillion messages, starting
a client is much faster then starting emacs.

Bruce C. Miller wrote:
> When I start up Gnu Emacs, I see a message that reads "For
> information about the GNU Profject and its goals, type C-h C-p." in
> the minibuffer/ echo area.
>
> Having already read this story (several times, in fact), I find this 
> message rather annoying after seeing it for the zillionth time, but I
>  haven't been able to turn this off. Can it be done?