open emacs with certain number of tabs open by default

Question

Is there a way to have emacs open up, say, 3 tabs, upon start up ?

I am tired of all the time having to open them manually and then split window also.

I would like to automate this via setting in my init.el file.

Maybe someone can help?

Answer 1

You could use desktop-save for this. Start Emacs and manually set up the window configuration that you want (e.g. call M-x split-window-right twice, followed by C-x +). Then do M-x desktop-save and choose some directory to store the .emacs.desktop file (for example "~").

Then in your init file put (desktop-read "~") (or the directory that you chose previously) followed by (global-tab-line-mode) (or (tab-bar-mode) if you prefer that functionality) to open Emacs with tabs and your preferred window configuration.

Answer 2

In your init file, you can add code to make the window configuration the way you want. Say, three windows, equally balanced:

(split-window-right)
(split-window-right)
(balance-windows)