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

You can turn off the initial splash screen with

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

this appears to also remove the initial message in the scratch buffer.