Every time I start Emacs I have to bury to *GNU Emacs" buffer. This
is a little bit annoying having to do this. If I can't kill this
buffer, then I would at least prefer the default-directory of that
buffer to be "~/" so that I can easily load a file that I want to
edit. The following code is what I have written to accomplish that
task but sadly it doesn't appear to work.

(defun d-emacs-startup-hook
()
(if (get-buffer "*GNU
Emacs*")
(save-
excursion
(set-buffer "*GNU
Emacs*")
(setq default-directory
"~/")))

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:28:29 -0700 (PDT), Davin Pearson gmail.com> wrote:

Try setting:

inhibit-startup-screen => t
inhibit-splash-screen => t

For more details, look at the documentation of these variables with:

C-h v inhibit-startup-screen RET
C-h v inhibit-splash-screen RET

I think this line of code will stop the start screen from appearing:
(setq inhibit-start-screen 1)

Documentation:
Non-nil inhibits the startup screen.

This is for use in your personal init file (but NOT site-start.el), once
you are familiar with the contents of the startup screen.

Davin Pearson gmail.com> wrote:

Did you know that you can just type ~/ when opening a file and the
default input will disappear?

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

On 16 Sep 2008, Davin Pearson wrote:

In addition to everything else that's been said, I've noticed that
hitting "q" deletes the buffer and sends me to the good old *scratch*
buffer, too. I just got used to doing that.

On Sep 16, 7:39 pm, Giorgos Keramidas
wrote:

It Works! Thank you for your help!

On Sep 16, 1:44 am, Charles Sebold gmail.com> wrote:

I think the existance of the lisp scratch buffer is one of the major
usability problem of emacs that prevents emacs from being widely
adopted by most text editing audience.

I wrote some detail about it here:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:57:59 -0700 (PDT), Xah gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Xah,

For what it's worth, I think I would appreciate an option that makes the
current behavior of the *scratch* buffer tunable, i.e. by an option like:

(defvar scratch-buffer-uses-fundamental-mode nil
"Non-nil makes the *scratch* buffer use `fundamental-mode'.

Xah wrote:

I think you should customize Emacs to behave as you want and not presume
to speak for most text editing audience:

,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ]
| initial-major-mode is a variable defined in `startup.el'.
| Its value is
| lisp-interaction-mode
|
|
| Documentation:
| Major mode command symbol to use for the initial `*scratch*' buffer.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----

On Sep 17, 12:36 am, Kevin Rodgers gmail.com> wrote:

i was making a suggestion. As such, its premise is that the suggested
idea is good for general audience.

perhaps you thought that my suggestion actually is not reasonable and
is more like a one person's preference. If so, please give reasons.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄