Start in shell mode

Start in shell mode

[Decebal]

Not very important, but I was wondering if it is possible to start
Emacs default in shell mode?

Re: Start in shell mode

[Nick Sandow]

You can use variable `initial-major-mode' for this.

(setq initial-major-mode 'shell)

Decebal wrote:
> Not very important, but I was wondering if it is possible to start
> Emacs default in shell mode?
>
>   

Re: Start in shell mode

[Decebal]

On 2 okt, 10:06, Nick Sandow <njs...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> You can use variable `initial-major-mode' for this.
>
> (setq initial-major-mode 'shell)

Works, thanks. The only problem is that the cursor starts at the
beging of the line, but with a cursor down that is solved.

Re: Start in shell mode

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<457a5817-c1e6-4161-9cd0-21e3572f7725@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
 Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 okt, 10:06, Nick Sandow <njs...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > You can use variable `initial-major-mode' for this.
> >
> > (setq initial-major-mode 'shell)
> 
> Works, thanks. The only problem is that the cursor starts at the
> beging of the line, but with a cursor down that is solved.

This will change the mode of the *scratch* buffer.  What I do instead is 
put

(shell)

at the end of my .emacs file.  This will create the normal *shell* 
buffer and switch to it.

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