From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to create dedicated buffers every time emacs starts? Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:20:30 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87mzo32d1n.fsf@magma.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123004396 12792 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2005 17:39:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 19:39:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00ip-00057W-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:38:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00lX-000102-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:41:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E00f4-0000ZV-NV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E00er-0000T4-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00er-0000Su-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E00oB-0006lS-3f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E00aq-00045G-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:30:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87mzo32d1n.fsf@magma.ca> 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-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:28357 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28357 Angelina Carlton wrote: > I would like to create a dictionary buffer, an info buffer and a man page > buffer so that each time I do M-x dictionary, M-x info or M-x man > it goes into the assigned buffer. > > Is something like this what i need? (doesn't work) > (setq special-display-buffer-names > '("*dictionary*" "*info*" "*Man*")) That ensures that whenever a buffer with one of those names is displayed, it will be displayed in its own frame. But it doesn't cause any buffers with those names to be created... > basically, make these 3 buffers every time emacs starts and if I call > M-x whatever, place it in one of those buffers and not in the buffer I > happen to be working in. ... for that, you have to call M-x whatever in your .emacs file: (dictionary) (info) (man "man") -- Kevin Rodgers