Disabling vim's startup message (vimdiff, vim -o -O ones)

Question

When using opening multiple files with split windows from the command line, vim likes to state what the file names are, the line count, and the character count, for each file. T

Answer 1

You have to play with 'shortmess' vim option.

:help shortmess

Either set it in your .vimrc

set shortmess=at

or during the vim run

vim --cmd 'set shortmess=at'