{"id":12631,"date":"2024-12-09T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2024-12-09T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:52:47","slug":"customizing-the-emacs-startup-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12631","title":{"rendered":"Customizing The Emacs Startup Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe Emacs Cat has another interesting post. This time it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/olddeuteronomy.github.io\/post\/emacs-startup-screen\/\">about customizing the Emacs startup screen<\/a>. He wants to see something useful when Emacs starts up. In particular, he&rsquo;d like to see\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"org-ul\">\n<li>A calendar<\/li>\n<li>His agenda<\/li>\n<li>His diary<\/li>\n<li>A random aphorism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIt&rsquo;s actually pretty easy to do that. You may or may not want his exact configuration but it&rsquo;s very easy to adapt his code to suit yourself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI already have some code to instantiate two side-by-side empty screens on startup but I almost always immediately start an agenda in the right screen. It seemed to me that maybe I should adopt and adapt the Cat&rsquo;s code to start the agenda automatically. On the other hand, I almost never restart Emacs so I&rsquo;m not sure a lot of effort configuring that for startup is worth the trouble.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&rsquo;m not sure what I&rsquo;m going to do but if <i>you<\/i> would like to have a specific configuration for your startup screens, take a look at the Emacs Cat&rsquo;s post. The magic is done with some Elisp but it&rsquo;s pretty simple so if you are at all familiar with basic Elisp, you shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble adapting it for your particular use case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is yet another case of Emacs making it easy to have things your way. If you want to see something specific when Emacs starts up, it&rsquo;s pretty easy to make that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emacs Cat has another interesting post. This time it&rsquo;s about customizing the Emacs startup screen. He wants to see something useful when Emacs starts up. In particular, he&rsquo;d like to see A calendar His agenda His diary A random &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12632,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}