Emacs Splash Screen...

For a couple of years now Emacs has been starting up with a splash screen showing by default. Even if you start it from the command line and give it a filename to load.

This has never bothered me under Linux because just clicking in the window with the mouse makes the splash screen disappear and brings the file you actually asked for to the front. I've recently installed emacs-app from MacPorts on my Mac though and upon startup it actually opens the splash screen in a different window (or "frame" in emacs parlance), which I really don't like. It's much too obtrusive now.

Thankfully, emacs being emacs, you don't have to stand for this outrage! You can turn off the splash screen completely by dropping the following into your .emacs file:

;; Remove splash screen
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)

Sorted.