RE: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen?

[Drew Adams]

> we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to 
> put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or 
> default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set 
> "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our 
> case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses) 
> it seems justified. If we put
> 
> (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
> 
> in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is 
> there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using 
> user-specific .emacs files?

I would think, following the doc, that (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) would
work. You might want to check whether the value is actually t after Emacs starts
up. If it is not, figure out where it gets changed.

Other than that, take a look also at option `initial-buffer-choice'.