Avoiding gvim message box from echomsg in vimrc

Hello,

My vimrc sometimes does echomsg on startup. With console vim I get a "Press ENTER" prompt, which is OK. With GUI vim I get a modal message box instead. I want to get rid of that message box but still preserve the messages (in the :messages prompt). I particularly dislike the fact that if echomsg later I don't get a message box, this seems very inconsistent.

I tried to set guioptions+=c. With vim-gnome I no longer get a message box, but I get a double "Press ENTER" prompt with no visible messages. With windows vim this seems to have no effect. Is this a bug?

Using :silent or plain :echo would work, but I want to keep the messages.

I think the best solution would be to have a scriptable way to clear the "Press ENTER" prompt and any random point, but I found no way to do this.

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Regards,
Leonard

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