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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:
>         (add-hook 'shell-mode-post-hook '(erase-buffer))

That's difficult because the shell buffer is asynchronous, so
Emacs doesn't know when the shell's initialization is done.

Tramp has to deal with the problem and it's pretty ugly, but maybe
you can convince Kai to tell you how to reuse that ugly code for
this other case ?


        Stefan