From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Hardy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs start buffer Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:04:11 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F847BCB.4090001@cyberspaceroad.com> References: Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065647509 25715 80.91.224.253 (8 Oct 2003 21:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 23:11:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7Lax-0006u3-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:11:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A7Laa-0003aU-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A7LWo-0000sO-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A7LWG-0000fi-U4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A7LWG-0000ei-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.162] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A7LUI-0001Bc-00; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:04:50 +0200 Original-Received: from [217.88.255.113] (helo=cyberspaceroad.com) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A7LUI-00010D-00; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:04:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en, en-us Original-To: Kevin Dziulko In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13074 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > -- GNU Emacs 21.3.1 on Linux 2.4.20 RH9