Re: Load Custom Agenda at emacs launch

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17 2012, Ken Mankoff wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I find the first thing I do after launching emacs is to load my custom
> >> agenda, bound to C-c a c.
> >>
> >> Is there a way I can launch this from the command-line? I know I can
> >> run 'emacs -eval "(foo)"', but I haven't been able to determine the
> >> function that loads my custom agenda. Does such a function exist, or
> >> is there a way to specific the keystrokes from the command line?
> >
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > If you look at the docstring for `org-agenda', you'll see you can call
> > it with the prefix arg as the first argument, and the selector key as
> > the second. Assuming you don't need a prefix argument, this should work
> > for you:
> >
> > (org-agenda nil "c")
> >
> > Put that at the bottom of your init file (or run it as an after-init
> > hook), and it will be the first thing you see when you start emacs.
> >
> 
> That works fairly well. I'm doing the CLI --eval version because I
> often launch emacs w/o wanting to enter org mode. But I get a screen
> with 90% org and 10% *scratch* buffer... Again, some searching and
> trying to call the "kill-buffer" function, and I haven't figured it
> out. Any hints on how to get full-terminal agenda mode? Sorry if these
> are newbie questions.
> 

Try

emacs -q -l /path/to/minimal/org.el\
       --eval '(progn (setq org-agenda-window-setup (quote current-window)) (org-agenda nil "c" nil))'

Nick