Emacs disable *Messages* buffer

Question

Is there a way to disable the Messages buffer? I know I can kill it, but it reappears. I know I can scroll through buffers without passing by Messages, but is there a way I can just disable the creation of it?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Based on the answer above, place this in your .emacs to completely disable the messages

;; Forces the messages to 0, and kills the *Messages* buffer - thus disabling it on startup. (setq-default message-log-max nil) (kill-buffer "*Messages*") 

Also, if you're like me, this is how you remove the Completions buffer that appears when opening a new file from the buffer.

;; Disabled *Completions* (add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook        '(lambda ()          (let ((buffer "*Completions*"))            (and (get-buffer buffer)             (kill-buffer buffer))))) 

Answer 2

You can customize the variable message-log-max and give a value of nil to disable logging:

Maximum number of lines to keep in the message log buffer. If nil, disable message logging.  If t, log messages but don't truncate the buffer when it becomes large. 

I tried killing the *Messages* buffer, producing messages (that show on the minibuffer), and no new messages buffer appears.