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Re: how to create dedicated buffers every time emacs starts?


From: Kevin Rodgers
Subject: Re: how to create dedicated buffers every time emacs starts?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:20:30 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105)

Angelina Carlton wrote:
> I would like to create a dictionary buffer, an info buffer and a man page
> buffer so that each time I do M-x dictionary, M-x info or M-x man
> it goes into the assigned buffer.
>
> Is something like this what i need? (doesn't work)
> (setq special-display-buffer-names
>       '("*dictionary*" "*info*" "*Man*"))

That ensures that whenever a buffer with one of those names is
displayed, it will be displayed in its own frame.  But it doesn't cause
any buffers with those names to be created...

> basically, make these 3 buffers every time emacs starts and if I call
> M-x whatever, place it in one of those buffers and not in the buffer I
> happen to be working in.

... for that, you have to call M-x whatever in your .emacs file:

(dictionary)
(info)
(man "man")

--
Kevin Rodgers





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