emacs start buffer

emacs start buffer

[Kevin Dziulko]

Hello

Does anyone know of a package that creates a "My Emacs" start buffer.  I 
am thinking of something along the lines of personalized start pages many 
web sites offer, like My Yahoo.

A read-only buffer that is automaticlly created and displayed upon emacs 
start up, that could display the date & time, if today is a holiday, a 
couple of your appointments, how many emails you have, a random quote, a 
tip of the day, etc.

Kevin

Re: emacs start buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kevin Dziulko wrote:

> A read-only buffer that is automaticlly created and displayed upon emacs 
> start up, that could display the date & time, if today is a holiday, a 
> couple of your appointments, how many emails you have, a random quote, a 
> tip of the day, etc.

emacs -f display-time -f calendar -f rmail ...


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Kevin Rodgers

Re: emacs start buffer

[Adam Hardy]

Don't know how to do that but I asked more or less the same question a 
couple of weeks ago.

I scooped up a useful tip-of-the-day function here on the list, but it 
starts in its own buffer when I would like it to start on the splash 
screen. My splash screen obviously does stuff but I don't know where 
it's located.

Adam

On 10/08/2003 03:53 PM Kevin Dziulko wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Does anyone know of a package that creates a "My Emacs" start buffer.  I 
> am thinking of something along the lines of personalized start pages many 
> web sites offer, like My Yahoo.
> 
> A read-only buffer that is automaticlly created and displayed upon emacs 
> start up, that could display the date & time, if today is a holiday, a 
> couple of your appointments, how many emails you have, a random quote, a 
> tip of the day, etc.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
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Re: emacs start buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

[Please don't top-post.]

Adam Hardy wrote:

> I scooped up a useful tip-of-the-day function here on the list, but it 
> starts in its own buffer when I would like it to start on the splash 
> screen. My splash screen obviously does stuff but I don't know where 
> it's located.

M-x apropos RET splash RET

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Kevin Rodgers

Re: emacs start buffer

[Colin Marquardt]

Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> writes:

> A read-only buffer that is automaticlly created and displayed upon emacs 
> start up, that could display the date & time, if today is a holiday, a 
> couple of your appointments, how many emails you have, a random quote, a 
> tip of the day, etc.

Nice idea. One part of that buffer could be cal-desk-calendar, a kind
of an "agenda for today".

ELL lists 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=wkr9oviig9.fsf%40rochester.rr.com&output=gplain
but apparently there is at least a version 0.5 out there.  Seems to
be unmaintained though.

HTH,
  Colin

Re: emacs start buffer

[Colin Marquardt]

/me <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

> Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> writes:
>
>> A read-only buffer that is automaticlly created and displayed upon emacs 
>> start up, that could display the date & time, if today is a holiday, a 
>> couple of your appointments, how many emails you have, a random quote, a 
>> tip of the day, etc.
>
> Nice idea. One part of that buffer could be cal-desk-calendar, a kind
> of an "agenda for today".

I just see that Sacha Chua has a version 0.8 here:
  http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/emacs/cal-desk-calendar.el