From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Starting Up Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:05:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A58A12E.1040202@peoplepc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247324835 29719 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 15:07:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: mortecanine@peoplepc.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 11 17:07:08 2009 Return-path: 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 1MPeAN-0005uj-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35559 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPeAM-0006j6-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPe97-0005yG-Mr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPe92-0005ow-Fp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53300 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPe92-0005oe-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:64727) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPe91-0005e4-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so337581fxm.42 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:05:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YUFf1UV0S2GHy8rHJAD9BoiwW1Fc90ZnOUdXPZUEyIY=; b=O0Q00mUsvmdvfRTHn+YiSAXnPvty8gF5pH5uqzB4eGzWdvmjWts4ZYhntoQKVBKjdM b+KzB4jW0TeZiPuN6SPcr5pCrihNDAa1j5QXwHmt1oi2ouU6O875qEjS87Pn124GpJHw Xl1EX8AWXMtv1bAeal8Mu8wf98RD6xiWeCgkY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=p1TXFknfivDra+bxWEYkmRdsuKMZP8EFequcly1smiTx/+4Luh1Y3zrOJJKU7kQSay zJ9yyawIsUTJ7r1GhEOq3g3YnlyTXALGxKufCB5h/3xu7a6Okp8qHLOT8AUZp/Zkgcgf DCRKNrVN6Gq0I4v0PuRKD6wXKMHdgvTw+SFSY= Original-Received: by 10.223.105.16 with SMTP id r16mr1518714fao.24.1247324741942; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:05:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A58A12E.1040202@peoplepc.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:65957 Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin Badgley wrote: > > Is there a way to have Emacs load a file into the buffer upon start up. > Instead of the default 'Welcome to Emacs' cover file I'd like to load Emacs > with a file called NewFile, which is simply a blank new file. Thanks. Hi Ben, In Emacs it is called a buffer without a buffer file name associated with it. You can use "Save as" to save any buffer to a file so I believe it will work as you want. Look at the the initialization options: M-x customize-group RET initialization RET