Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:37:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
| cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
| >"Colin Cashman" <ccashman@mediaone.net> wrote:
| >>Every time I start Vim with a new file, I get an intro screen. How do I
| >>surpress that?
| >
| >Put 'set shortmess=I' (or 'set shm=I') in your ~/.vimrc.
| 
| Bah, turns out the default is 'shortmess=filnxtToO' (intuitive, huh?),
| so you need to add to that, not replace it. 'set shortmess=filnxtToOI'

better yet,

set shortmess+=I

(I just wanted to mention the "+=" operator, the intro message doesn't
bother me so I have never RTFM'd shortmess)

-D