From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to start shell and rename the buffer Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:34:51 +0100 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7cr634wpk4.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232034108 3596 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 15:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 16:43:00 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 1LNUMo-00009v-L7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNULY-0006SF-19 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:41:28 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp9-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OGVkMTRlZjJjNDdjMjJhMGVmZWViZGExMzMyNThkYzQ1YjhlZWQ4Yw== Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2009 16:34:51 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1232033691 news-2.free.fr 5248 88.170.236.224:49248 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166036 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:61359 Archived-At: Decebal writes: > I sometimes want to start emacs with a shell, but I also want to > rename the default name '*shell*'. http://darcs.informatimago.com/emacs/pjb-shell.el > 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? You're assuming that --eval will loop. If that had been the case, it would have been called --eval-loop. Instead it is called --eval, and therefore it only does that. When you want to group several expressionsions in a sequence, you must use prog1, prog2 or in general, progn: emacs --eval '(progn (shell) (rename-buffer "shell"))' But since you don't pass -q, emacs will read your ~/.emacs, so you can as well put there a function such as: (defun shell-and-rename (name) (interactive "sName: ") (shell) (rename-buffer name)) and then: emacs --eval '(shell-and-rename "shell")' -- __Pascal Bourguignon__