How do I change the scratch message in Emacs?

Question

The scratch message always says:

;; This buffer is for notes you don\'t want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
;; If you want to create a file, visit that file w         


        

Answer 1

For Emacs 23, you can do this:

(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

From the documentation: "Initial message displayed in scratch buffer at startup. If this is nil, no message will be displayed."