Help on not opening buffer-menu

Help on not opening buffer-menu

[Guillaume MULLER]

Hi all,

I've searched for a solution for 2 days now and have not been able to find one, so you're my last resource :)

When I open multiple files using a command line like:
emacs a b c

Emacs insists on opening the files in various buffers (that's what I want), but it insists on showing a window splitted horizontally with one of the buffers AND a buffer-menu (that lists all the opened buffers).

The problem is I don't want to see the buffer-menu at all, it just pisses-me off to have to close it all the time I open a list of files in Emacs... If I want such a listing, then I can use c-x c-b, I do not need it when not asked.

Does anyone has a solution to either (i) not open the buffer-menu at all or (ii) at least, automatically close it?

FYI, most of the time, I do not use emacs directly but a script that launches emacsclient and that reads:
#!/bin/bash
(emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c "$@") || (echo emacs "$@")

So if the solution could work in this context, I would be very grateful!


Thanks

Guillaume MULLER

Re: Help on not opening buffer-menu

[Damien Wyart]

* Guillaume MULLER <gm@presans.com> in gnu.emacs.help:
> When I open multiple files using a command line like:
> emacs a b c

> Emacs insists on opening the files in various buffers (that's what
> I want), but it insists on showing a window splitted horizontally with
> one of the buffers AND a buffer-menu (that lists all the opened
> buffers).

You can use (setq inhibit-startup-buffer-menu t).

-- 
DW

Re: Help on not opening buffer-menu

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 12/24/13 3:15 AM, Guillaume MULLER wrote:
> I've searched for a solution for 2 days now and have not been able to find one,
> so you're my last resource :)

Did you try the Emacs manual (C-h i)?

> When I open multiple files using a command line like:
> emacs a b c
>
> Emacs insists on opening the files in various buffers (that's what I want), but
> it insists on showing a window splitted horizontally with one of the buffers AND
> a buffer-menu (that lists all the opened buffers).
>
> The problem is I don't want to see the buffer-menu at all, it just pisses-me off
> to have to close it all the time I open a list of files in Emacs... If I want
> such a listing, then I can use c-x c-b, I do not need it when not asked.
>
> Does anyone has a solution to either (i) not open the buffer-menu at all or (ii)
> at least, automatically close it?

The section of the manual that documents the FILE command line argument
("Emacs Invocation" -> "Action Arguments")  has what you're looking for:

`FILE'
`--file=FILE'
`--find-file=FILE'
`--visit=FILE'
      Visit FILE using `find-file'.  *Note Visiting::.

      When Emacs starts up, it displays the startup buffer in one window,
      and the buffer visiting FILE in another window (*note Windows::).
      If you supply more than one file argument, the displayed file is
      the last one specified on the command line; the other files are
      visited but their buffers are not shown.

      If the startup buffer is disabled (*note Entering Emacs::), then
      FILE is visited in a single window if one file argument was
      supplied; with two file arguments, Emacs displays the files in two
      different windows; with more than two file argument, Emacs displays
      the last file specified in one window, plus a Buffer Menu in a
      different window (*note Several Buffers::).  To inhibit using the
      Buffer Menu for this, change the variable
      `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu' to `t'.

> FYI, most of the time, I do not use emacs directly but a script that launches
> emacsclient and that reads:
> #!/bin/bash
> (emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c "$@") || (echo emacs "$@")
>
> So if the solution could work in this context, I would be very grateful!

Sorry, I don't know.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA