 ;;;; Init helpers END
 
 ;;;; Appearance START
+
+;; Get rid of splash screens.
+;; From http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNiftyTricks
+(vsetq inhibit-splash-screen t)
+(vsetq initial-scratch-message nil)
 
 (when (display-graphic-p)
   ;; Enable if you'd like to start as fullscreen.

(when (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) (tool-bar-mode -1))
;; No Alarms.
(setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)
;; Empty buffer loads faster than scratch as default.
(setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda ()
                              (get-buffer-create "welcome")))

;; Additional load paths.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/ar")


(require 'cl)
(require 'package)

;; Don't auto-initialize!
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

;; Don't add that `custom-set-variables' block to initl.
(setq package--init-file-ensured t)

(require 'tls)

(assert (executable-find "gnutls-cli") nil
