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I'm trying to execute (previous-buffer) at startup.

I created a .emacs with only these 2 commands...

(shell)
(previous-buffer)

I was hoping I'd see something else besides the GNU welcome screen message.
The (shell) ran but the 2nd command didn't seem to.  Why?

cs