How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Chris Seberino]

Suppose you start Emacs with lots of files such as "emacs *.txt *.c".
I've noticed that Emacs will display the LAST email in sorted order.
How make it display the FIRST one in sorted order?

Thanks!

Chris

Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Emanuel Berg]

> Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:

> Suppose you start Emacs with lots of files such as "emacs *.txt
> *.c".

and

> I've noticed that Emacs will display the LAST email in sorted
> order.  How make it display the FIRST one in sorted order?

Email? How do you mean, how is that related to the number of files
you open Emacs with?

If you are using rmail, this might help you. Although it doesn't
say in the docstring, it focuses the most recent mail in the rmail
summary (the last three lines).

(defun mail ()
  "Invoke `rmail' and maximize its summary."
  (interactive)
  (delete-other-windows)
  (rmail)
  (goto-char (point-max))
  (previous-line)
  (recenter-top-bottom -1) )

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87txjzvolz.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>,
 Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> > Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Suppose you start Emacs with lots of files such as "emacs *.txt
> > *.c".
> 
> and
> 
> > I've noticed that Emacs will display the LAST email in sorted
> > order.  How make it display the FIRST one in sorted order?
> 
> Email? How do you mean, how is that related to the number of files
> you open Emacs with?

I think he meant "LAST file".

When you give Emacs multiple filenames on the command line, it acts as 
if you'd opened them with find-file in the order given. So when it's 
done, you end up in the last file.

The shell expands the wildcards. AFAIK, there's no way to customize the 
order it expands them. You could do something like:

emacs $(ls *.txt *.c | tac)

If your OS doesn't have "tac", try "rev".

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Emanuel Berg]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I think he meant "LAST file".

Aha! Haha, fun mistake!

> emacs $(ls *.txt *.c | tac)
>
> If your OS doesn't have "tac", try "rev".

Caution: People tend to put a lot of creative stuff in their `ls'
aliases. And, `tac' and `rev' are not the same. Just try

echo hello | tac

and

echo hello | rev

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87a9lrvbyk.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>,
 Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > I think he meant "LAST file".
> 
> Aha! Haha, fun mistake!
> 
> > emacs $(ls *.txt *.c | tac)
> >
> > If your OS doesn't have "tac", try "rev".
> 
> Caution: People tend to put a lot of creative stuff in their `ls'
> aliases. And, `tac' and `rev' are not the same. Just try
> 
> echo hello | tac
> 
> and
> 
> echo hello | rev

Oops.

My machine (Mac OS X 10.6.8) doesn't have 'tac'. Looks like the 
substitute here is 'tail -r'.

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Chris Seberino]

I used a variant of your way for tcsh...

emacs -g 96x30 `ls !* | tac`

I'm learning that sometimes it is best not to fight with Emacs and solve certain problems outside of Emacs.....*sometimes* doing config tweak on the desktop is easier.

Thanks again.

Chris

Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
() Sat, 13 Jul 2013 09:46:23 -0700 (PDT)

   I'm learning that sometimes it is best not to fight with Emacs
   and solve certain problems outside of Emacs.....*sometimes*
   doing config tweak on the desktop is easier.

You need not fight Emacs if you understand how to teach it.

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 7/13/13 10:46 AM, Chris Seberino wrote:
> I used a variant of your way for tcsh...
>
> emacs -g 96x30 `ls !* | tac`

Why not use ls's -r option to reverse the order?

emacs `ls -1r !*`

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Chris Seberino]

> The shell expands the wildcards. AFAIK, there's no way to customize the 
> order it expands them.

What about simply adding a few (next-buffers) or (previous-buffers) at the
end of your .emacs file?

(I tried that but it seems buffer switching doesn't work so well at startup.)

cs

Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.07.2013 um 21:04 schrieb Chris Seberino:

> What about simply adding a few (next-buffers) or (previous-buffers) at the
> end of your .emacs file?

What about

	(dired)

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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
() Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:04:17 -0700 (PDT)

   What about simply adding a few (next-buffers) or (previous-buffers)
   at the end of your .emacs file?

But what is the right amount?  How about this:


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then, presuming reverse-buffers.el is on ‘load-path’:


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Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Chris Seberino]

> What about
> 
> 
> 
> 	(dired)

I made a .emacs with only the line "(dired)" and it complained that
it needs more arguments.

I think if I can just get it to do 2 (previous-buffers) that will work since
I've noticed that ALWAYS gets me from the last buffer to first.

RE: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Drew Adams]

> > What about (dired)
> 
> I made a .emacs with only the line "(dired)" and it complained that
> it needs more arguments.

Just pass a directory to Emacs when you start it.  E.g.:

  /your/path/to/runemacs.exe "/your/directory/to/start/in"

That will start Emacs with Dired in /your/directory/to/start/in/

(Wrt what you tried: yes `dired' requires the target directory as
argument.  So you would need (dired "/your/directory/to/start/in").

Re: How start on a DIFFERENT buffer when start Emacs with MANY buffers at the same time?

[Chris Seberino]

Meant to say *file* not email. Sorry.