rougier / emacs-splash

An alternative splash screen for GNU Emacs

An alternative splash screen for GNU Emacs

Features

• No logo (not even in graphical mode)
• Vertical and horizontal scroll bars are hidden
• Modeline is hidden
• <space>, x, q, <esc>, <return> or <mouse-1> kills the splash screen
• C-h shows the regular startup screen (about-emacs)
• Splash screen is automatically killed after 3 seconds
• With emacs-mac (Mituharu), splash screen is faded out after 3 seconds

Usage

(require 'splash-screen)

Note The splash screen is not shown if there are opened file buffers. For example, if you start emacs with a filename on the command line, the splash is not shown.