Execute a command at Emacs startup (emacs.el)

Question

How to execute a command or a plugin at Emacs startup ?

I want to execute shell-toggle-cd (from http://user.it.uu.se/~mic/shell-toggle.el) at startup.

Thanks

Answer 1

The syntax for calling the function is

(shell-toggle-cd)

You can put that in your .emacs so that it is executed at startup. Here I assume that you have loaded the shell-toggle.el from your load path in .emacs before that.

You can load the package by saving shell-toggle.el somewhere and adding this to your .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/somewhere")
(require 'shell-toggle)

Answer 2

if you just want a shell to open at startup, you just have to add

(shell)

at the end of your .emacs. This should open a new shell buffer filling up the whole window (unless you have some other command asking to get half of the window somewhere else in the .emacs).