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 start shell and rename the buffer Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:52:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <8ded039f-9bb9-4f7a-ab77-df9326661690@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232081562 26442 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2009 04:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:52:42 +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 Jan 16 05:53:54 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 1LNgiQ-00026g-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNgh9-0006Ai-8Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNggr-00069Z-Qi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNggq-00068R-CR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58183 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNggp-00068O-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57118 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNggo-0008SA-LO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNggn-0002o8-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:52:13 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:52:13 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:52:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <8ded039f-9bb9-4f7a-ab77-df9326661690@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61396 Archived-At: Decebal wrote: > On 15 jan, 13:43, Decebal wrote: >> I sometimes want to start emacs with a shell, but I also want to >> rename the default name '*shell*'. >> I have: >> emacs -title ${TITLE} --eval '(shell) (rename-buffer "shell")' >> >> But the buffername is not renamed. >> In *Messages* I see: >> (emacs --eval (shell) (rename-buffer "shell")) >> >> And not an error or a warning. >> If I do 'M-:' and then '(rename-buffer "shell")' the buffer is >> renamed. >> >> What am I doing wrong? > > I found a way: > emacs -title ${TITLE} --eval '(shell "shell")' > > The only problem with this is that both the '*scratch*' and the > 'shell' buffer are displayed. Not a big problem, but is it possible to > have only the 'shell' buffer displayed? Because shell calls pop-to-buffer, whose doc string says: Select buffer buffer in some window, preferably a different one. ... If `pop-up-windows' is non-nil, windows can be split to do this. Try: emacs -title ${TITLE} --eval '(let ((pop-up-windows nil)) (shell "shell"))' > I found a way around my problem, but I am still interested why the > first way does not work. ;-} The --eval command line option calls the eval function, which takes exactly 1 argument (a lisp form). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA