Re: Set initial buffer to eshell

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Emanuel,

> > (eshell)
>
> Yes, but beware, if you do changes to .emacs, and want to
> effectuate them en masse, you can't `M-x load-file RET` - well,
> you can, but then you will invoke the eshell which probably wasn't
> what you wanted, and especially not as it was started on startup
> and I suspect you not to shut it down until you shut down Emacs.
>
> I guess something like this would do the trick, at least if you
> (like me) are not a functional programming zealot and thus have no
> problems with globals or side-effects.
>
> (defvar *has-started* nil)
> (if (not *has-started*)
>     (progn
>       (setq *has-started* t)
>       (eshell) ))

Yes, that would work, but it's probably even easier to use
`after-init-hook'.


Michael.