From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: startup with dired Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:32:48 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138299329 17874 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 18:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 19:15:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2BdI-00085Y-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2Bg4-00089N-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2A6G-00014S-FA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2A6D-00013f-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2A6D-00013T-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1F2A3n-0004Xa-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.49]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0QGWsoZ029168 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:32:54 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0QGWswE030413 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:32:54 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k0QGWrjY030405 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:32:53 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:32858 Archived-At: is there something I can put in my .emacs file to make emacs startup in dired mode at a certain directory? for instance, when i start emacs, i want it to automatically be in dired mode at /home/ryan/code Why not just pass the directory as an argument to `runemacs'? For example: runemacs.exe "/home/ryan/code" This doesn't require that you change your .emacs.