Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up?

[William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>]

Hi David;

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:28 -0700, Davin Pearson wrote:
> Every time I start Emacs I have to bury to *GNU Emacs" buffer.  This
> is a little bit annoying having to do this.  If I can't kill this
> buffer, then I would at least prefer the default-directory of that
> buffer to be "~/" so that I can easily load a file that I want to
> edit.  The following code is what I have written to accomplish that
> task but sadly it doesn't appear to work.

This may be too late to be of much help, but ...

a command line in a terminal or launcher of "emacs --no-splash /" gets
me what you appear to want.  Change the "/" to the directory path you
would like e.g. "~/" or "/home/user/to/where/ever".  It works for me.

I haven't tried it but I would think "/home/user/new" could be used to
open a new buffer each time as long as you remember to 'save as'
myfilename.

I have a separate emacs launcher I use with zenity (Gnome) and sudo for
quick root access when I want to view/make quick configuration file etc.
changes.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1