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Malabarba
Asked: 2010-09-28 07:57:35 +0800 CST

Keeping emacs from splitting the window when openning multiple files

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Whenever I open more than one file at the same time with emacs, as in: 

emacs foo.dat bar.dat

The window that opens will be split between the two files (a buffer for each file). I would like to avoid that. Is there a line I can place in my .emacs file to keep that from happening? I would like emacs to only open one buffer in the window, no matter how many files I'm loading.

I'm using version 23.1.1.

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  1. Best Answer

    The following code works for me (add into ~/.emacs):

    (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
          (lambda () (delete-other-windows)) t)

    The emacs-startup-hook is run after loading the init file and processing the command line, so all files have been loaded and opened; calling delete-other-windows leaves just one of them visible (normally the last one given on the command line).

    Note: you might also need to customize inhibit-startup-screen and set it to t for the above to work.

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