From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Set initial buffer to eshell Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:43:15 -0600 Message-ID: References: <16762ff6-aede-4af9-8d26-43e4254ff516@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372387331 10385 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 02:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:42:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 04:42:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdY-000069-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdX-0004n4-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdL-0004mm-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdG-0003Jj-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdF-0003J7-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsOdE-0008Hf-Gc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 70-59-38-124.hlrn.qwest.net ([70.59.38.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by 70-59-38-124.hlrn.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:41:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70-59-38-124.hlrn.qwest.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: <16762ff6-aede-4af9-8d26-43e4254ff516@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91806 Archived-At: On 6/27/13 1:55 PM, jacob.schlather@gmail.com wrote: > I was wondering what the easiest change I could make to my .emacs file > to set the initial buffer to the eshell. I messed around a little bit > with initial-buffer-choice but this only seemed helpful for launching > to certain files. Why change .emacs? Just invoke Emacs with: emacs -f eshell You can define an alias or create a script to encapsulate that logic. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA