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Decebal wrote:
> In my .emacs I have:
>     ;;; Start in shell mode
>     (setq initial-major-mode 'shell)
> 
> In this way I start Emacs in a buffer in shell-mode name '*shell*'. Is
> there a way to let this buffer be named 'shell' automatically?

The shell function accepts a buffer argument, so
(lambda nil (shell "shell"))
will probably work.

-ap