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On startup Emacs now opens a pane labelled "Messages" in addition to the "scratch" pane. How can I modify my configuration to suppress this?
Google seaches just seem to give me ways to suppress the splash screen.
I have just modified by init.el, but I searched through the changes, and didn't see anything related to the keyword 'message'.
Does the problem happen when you start Emacs using emacs -Q, that is, with no init file?
If so, M-x report-emacs-bug.
If not, recursively bisect your init file to find out which part of it is leading to this behavior.
You can do that using comment-region to comment out first 1/2 of your init file, then 3/4, then 7/8, etc. With C-u, command comment-region uncomments the region.
(with-temp-buffer (shell-command... that was added to my init.
You can add these lines to your .emacs configuration file (source):
;; Forces the messages to 0, and kills the *Messages* buffer
(setq-default message-log-max nil)
(kill-buffer "*Messages*")
The trick is to set the number of messages to 0 which stops the buffer from appearing. Note that you might want to change this back at some point if your emacs is having problems.
emacs -Q for example. This hack will just hide it.
emacs -Q then that sounds like an Emacs bug to me. That does not happen to me with emacs -Q, using any Emacs version from Emacs 20 through the latest Emacs 25 dev snapshot. (But then again, I'm on MS Windows. But it also did not happen to me in the old days, when I was using Emacs on UNIX. And it also does not happen to me on GNU/Linux using Emacs 21.3 (FWIW).)