Re: Emacs Starting Up

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin
Badgley<mortecanine@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to have Emacs load a file into the buffer upon start up.
> Instead of the default 'Welcome to Emacs' cover file I'd like to load Emacs
> with a file called NewFile, which is simply a blank new file. Thanks.

Hi Ben,

In Emacs it is called a buffer without a buffer file name associated
with it. You can use "Save as" to save any buffer to a file so I
believe it will work as you want.

Look at the the initialization options:

   M-x customize-group RET initialization RET