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

The proper way is to add inhibit-startup-screen to the custom-set-variables section of your .emacs file.

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
)