From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Set initial buffer to eshell Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:52:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87ip0zupxo.fsf@web.de> References: <16762ff6-aede-4af9-8d26-43e4254ff516@googlegroups.com> <87y59vgqq4.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372373601 10216 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2013 22:53:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:53:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 00:53:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL45-0001FK-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:53:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL44-0004sv-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL3s-0004se-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL3r-0005uk-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL3k-0005st-Bj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsL3h-0000ug-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:52:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-157-161.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.157.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:52:57 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-157-161.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:52:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-157-161.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TGpiX9lHYfhClPPrBzWXcS2t0SQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91805 Archived-At: Hi Emanuel, > > (eshell) > > Yes, but beware, if you do changes to .emacs, and want to > effectuate them en masse, you can't `M-x load-file RET` - well, > you can, but then you will invoke the eshell which probably wasn't > what you wanted, and especially not as it was started on startup > and I suspect you not to shut it down until you shut down Emacs. > > I guess something like this would do the trick, at least if you > (like me) are not a functional programming zealot and thus have no > problems with globals or side-effects. > > (defvar *has-started* nil) > (if (not *has-started*) > (progn > (setq *has-started* t) > (eshell) )) Yes, that would work, but it's probably even easier to use `after-init-hook'. Michael.