Re: Run ghci on emacs startup?

[Bastian . Webster]

On Jun 24, 6:28 am, Bastian.Webs...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 23, 11:07 pm, "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > I am trying to get ghci to run and to change the size of the buffer to
> > > a height of 5 lines when I startup Emacs.  I have not been able to
> > > find anything online on how to accomplish this.  Any help would be
> > > appreciated, and thank you in advance!
>
> > You can try something like this in your .emacs:
>
> > (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
>
> > (require 'haskell-mode)
> > (require 'inf-haskell)
> > (setq haskell-program-name "ghci")
> > (let ((split-width-threshold nil))
> >   (run-haskell)
> >   (set-window-text-height (get-buffer-window "*haskell*") 5))
>
> > Good luck,
>
> >    Juanma
>
> ha ha!  Awesome! I had actually just managed to do it, but your method
> is much better.  Here is what I came up with:
>
> (run-haskell)
> (select-next-window)
> (enlarge-window 16)
>
> Thanks for the help!

select-next-window being a function I found here:
http://nex-3.com/posts/45-efficient-window-switching-in-emacs