Re: Simple question on loading programs in emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <87lidjgf3v.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info>,
>  Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
>
>> A simple question, but I'm lost in the manual. I want to start a session
>> of emacs that automatically loads an emacs program automatically instead
>> of having to do M-x program during the emacs session. I want to do this
>> because I have a custom emacs init file just for that emacs program.
>> 
>> I tried (autoload 'program "ProgramName" t), but this only sets it in
>> the environment. 
>> 
>> A related question: When I close that program within emacs, I want
>> it to close the emacs session as well. 
>
> Maybe Emacs Batch Mode is what you're looking for.  See
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/BatchMode

In batch mode you don't have a user interface.  Probably, the OP program
will have some user interface and interactivity, since "*I*" will close
it.

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