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I'm using Emacs on Windows. I plan on making a shortcut to Emacs for quick access.

However, I have 3 files that should always be opened when I start emacs (ideally in 3 separate tabs), and I want that to happen I click on the shortcut.

I've installed elscreen to get a tab bar-like functionality, but I'm not quite sure how to automatically open those 3 files in separate tabs.

Anyone have an idea on how to achieve this?

wiuah
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  • If you want tab-bar like functionality, then do not use elscreen. Instead, use tabbar.el: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/10081/browser-style-tabs-for-emacs elscreen is for preserving window layouts. Once you install and configure tabbar.el, all you need to do is have three (3) lines of code in your .emacs file using find-file: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/26985/2287 If you are interested in organizing buffers by frames, then see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18346785/how-to-intercept-a-file-before-it-opens-and-decide-which-frame and also frame-bufs. – lawlist Sep 21 '16 at 03:09
  • elscreen's goal isn't to preserve window layouts, though it's possible with another package, it's more to have tabs, but when we want, not for every file. – Ehvince Sep 21 '16 at 13:20
  • @Ehvince -- The link to the Emacs wiki describes elscreen as "elscreen is a GNU Emacs window session manager modeled after GNU screen by NaotoMorishima.": https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreenhttps://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreen I have elscreen installed, and can confirm that it is most definitely designed to manage window layouts within Emacs. – lawlist Sep 21 '16 at 14:23
  • Yes ok, it does manage windows layout. I wanted to stress that it doesn't persist them by default (a goal of the question) and that it does have tabs (the doc says the window layouts are tabbed) even if tabs isn't the first goal of the app. It wanted to react to your "do not use elscreen", beause I think he can. – Ehvince Sep 21 '16 at 15:06

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You can achieve that with elscreen-persist. Create screens and open the files you need, then call M-x elscreen-persist-store and elscreen-persist-restore to restore what you saved.

and maybe tabbar.el does that through configuration.

Ehvince
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