Unable to hide welcome screen in Emacs

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Add the following to your $HOME/.emacs:

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

The next time you start Emacs, the welcome screen shouldn’t appear. If you already have Emacs open with the welcome screen, you can kill it with C-x k (Control-x, then k).

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