What is the idiomatic elisp way to have emacs start with N buffers, M windows, and M of those N buffers loaded into windows of a designated placement and size? Or maybe there's a nice plugin for this? Specifically, I want to have an emacs session like this upon startup:
In case version matters, I'm looking to use gnu emacs 24.3.
One easy way is to use an Emacs desktop (see the Emacs manual, node Saving Emacs Sessions). Position things as you want, then save your setup as a desktop. (But you will need Emacs 24.4 to have the saved desktop include frame and window configurations.)
(If you use Bookmark+ then you can have multiple desktop bookmarks, and flip between them with a key.)
Otherwise, you will need to write some Elisp code to re-create your frames, windows, buffers etc. in your init file.
opencommand, so CLI solutions could apply. - seewalkerns-find-fileis used when launching Emacs from Finder.app by opening a file -- e.g., Command+Down-Arrow. You can create your own function and use adefalias-- e.g.,(defalias 'ns-find-file 'lawlist-ns-find-file). I'll check back tomorrow sometime to see if you still need a solution. If there is a specific window you want the file displayed in, please post a comment or update your question. In two places, I modifyns-find-fileto point to my ownlawlist-find-filefunction, which in turn uses a complexdisplay-bufferfunction that creates certain frames. - lawlistns-find-fileto launch from Finder.app: stackoverflow.com/a/18371427/2112489 - lawlist