Automatically closing the scratch buffer

Question

What I must write in my .emacs file so that the *scratch* buffer is closed when I open Emacs?

Answer 1

Not exactly the answer to your question, but you might like to know that you can choose to have a different buffer open on startup, or change the contents of the *scratch* buffer. For example:

;; Make *scratch* buffer blank.
(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

;; Make the buffer that opens on startup your init file ("~/.emacs" or
;; "~/.emacs.d/init.el").
(setq initial-buffer-choice user-init-file) 

In the first example, the *scratch* buffer will be empty. In the second example, the *scratch* buffer will still exist, but user-init-file will be focused.