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From: Rami A <rami.ammari@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Rami A <rami.ammari@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Starting up emacs with list of current direfctory files instead of*scratch*
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:54:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20ae22d1-fa22-48c0-a251-c613c1a84be7@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.23056.1364593667.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Friday, March 29, 2013 2:47:33 PM UTC-7, Drew Adams wrote:
> > Whenever I start emacs I get the *scratch* buffer, is there a 
> 
> > setting that I could add to my dotemacs file so emacs with 
> 
> > start with the current directory files list buffer?
> 
> 
> 
> Add this to your .emacs:
> 
> 
> 
> (dired "/my/favorite/dir")
> 
> 
> 
> Or just add the directory to your startup command line.  For example (MS Windows
> 
> and others):
> 
> 
> 
> C:\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe "C:\my\favorite\dir"
> 
> 
> 
> /emacs/bin/runemacs.exe "/my/favorite/dir"

Awesome...much appreciated Drew.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-29 18:51 Starting up emacs with list of current direfctory files instead of *scratch* Rami A
2013-03-29 21:47 ` Starting up emacs with list of current direfctory files instead of*scratch* Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.23056.1364593667.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-29 21:54   ` Rami A [this message]
2013-03-30  6:44 ` Starting up emacs with list of current direfctory files instead of *scratch* Andreas Röhler
2013-03-30  8:10 ` Jambunathan K

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