From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: open files on startup Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:11 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tywqgvls.fsf@galatea.local> References: <2f0772e5-7fc4-4a6a-b3a5-782033418e9c@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258659930 13499 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 19:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 20:45:23 2009 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBCwM-0006Mv-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:45:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBCwL-0003go-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:13 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net EyCKrkRMI4O7kMKFXKY6iw4rh25xGIVxDvHMZ6sDCzFNR/y+xp Cancel-Lock: sha1:MTdjNDk0NTQ1OGNiNjE5OTk5ZTM2MzA4NzFlOTNhMGNiMGRjOTEzOA== sha1:cB5ytAUvQj9uMNVl2qVcyrZkgSk= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no Importance: high User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174870 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69942 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/69942> JT Fleming <jeff.fleming@halliburton.com> writes: > I am trying to open 2 files and the programmable calculator on > startup. > I can open 1 file but can't figure out how to get the other and the > calculator. > Any help would be appreciated. > Here is what is currently used to open a file > (custom-set-variables > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > '(initial-buffer-choice "~/diary")) You could just put: (dolist (file '("~/diary" "~/some-other-file")) (find-file file)) at the end of your ~/.emacs file. You can also use split-window-vertically, other-window and balance-windows to have them spread over several windows. (defun open-files (files) (delete-other-windows) (loop repeat (1- (length files)) do (split-window-vertically) (balance-windows)) (loop for file in files do (find-file file) (other-window 1))) (open-files '("/tmp/a" "/tmp/b" "/tmp/c")) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__