Re: How to start shell and rename the buffer

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> writes:

> I sometimes want to start emacs with a shell, but I also want to
> rename the default name '*shell*'.
> 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?
>

This works for me:

emacs -title mytitle --eval '(progn (shell) (rename-buffer "myshell"))'

I guess the --eval flag runs only the first complete command, requiring
the (progn ...) to do both. Just guessing, though.

Tyler

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