RE: Starting up emacs with list of current direfctory files instead of*scratch*

[Drew Adams]

> Whenever I start emacs I get the *scratch* buffer, is there a 
> setting that I could add to my dotemacs file so emacs with 
> start with the current directory files list buffer?

Add this to your .emacs:

(dired "/my/favorite/dir")

Or just add the directory to your startup command line.  For example (MS Windows
and others):

C:\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe "C:\my\favorite\dir"

/emacs/bin/runemacs.exe "/my/favorite/dir"