Emacs Starting Up

Emacs Starting Up

[Benjamin Badgley]

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Is there a way to have Emacs load a file into the buffer upon start up. Instead 
of the default 'Welcome to Emacs' cover file I'd like to load Emacs with a file 
called NewFile, which is simply a blank new file. Thanks.

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Re: Emacs Starting Up

[Dmitry Dzhus]

Benjamin Badgley wrote:
> Is there a way to have Emacs load a file into the buffer upon start
> up. Instead of the default 'Welcome to Emacs' cover file I'd like to
> load Emacs with a file called NewFile, which is simply a blank new
> file. Thanks.

,----[ C-h v initial-buffer-choice RET ]
| initial-buffer-choice is a variable defined in `startup.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| Buffer to show after starting Emacs.
| If the value is nil and `inhibit-startup-screen' is nil, show the
| startup screen.  If the value is string, visit the specified file or
| directory using `find-file'.  If t, open the `*scratch*' buffer.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 23.1 of Emacs.
| 
| [back]
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Re: Emacs Starting Up

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin
Badgley<mortecanine@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to have Emacs load a file into the buffer upon start up.
> Instead of the default 'Welcome to Emacs' cover file I'd like to load Emacs
> with a file called NewFile, which is simply a blank new file. Thanks.

Hi Ben,

In Emacs it is called a buffer without a buffer file name associated
with it. You can use "Save as" to save any buffer to a file so I
believe it will work as you want.

Look at the the initialization options:

   M-x customize-group RET initialization RET