Kiran Chauhan

Cogito, ergo sum // I think, therefore I am.

Emacs Minipost Pt. 2

This is a startup screen. When you open Emacs without any file, you'll probably see this startup screen all the time at the start of Emacs. You can customize the startup screen by clicking on "Customize Startup" link from this startup screen and within "To start..." section or you can write following line in .emacs.d file. .emacs.d is a config file and based on the instructions you write in this file, Emacs behave accordingly.

Following are the possible locations of the .emacs.d file.

# GNU/Linux
~/.config/emacs/init.el

# macOS
~/.emacs.d/init.el

# Windows
%USERPROFILE%\.emacs.d\init.el

Navigate and open based on your OS and add following line. This will hide/disable the startup screen permanently.

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

Restart the Emacs and you won't see that startup screen on next time!

Summary: With this step, now you know that there is Emacs config file where you can write configuration for the Emacs!

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