From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12791: 24.2; An option to load user init file with -batch Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:01:59 -0400 Message-ID: <8hmwyyjys8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83a9uz57id.fsf@gnu.org> <83390q66s5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351969331 20978 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2012 19:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12791@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 20:02:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiz6-0003zc-7z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:02:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiyx-00043s-CQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiyv-00043m-0z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiyu-00014d-56 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiyu-00014Z-1i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUj1i-0000pY-RD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:05:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:05:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12791 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 12791-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12791.13519695003176 (code B ref 12791); Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12791) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Nov 2012 19:05:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47513 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUj1f-0000pA-HB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:40974) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUj1d-0000p2-5a for 12791@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUiyl-0002jW-EU; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:01:59 -0400 X-Spook: csystems Honduras NATO CDC Mossad sweep Roswell ANDVT X-Ran: w4*>j=O`dZg"ru>O\QS$w(GDdO>NodgDu+fhO(X#Ji#y]"qi=3$bkJ6b~Het"h=]H]k~*| X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83390q66s5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:32:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66403 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > What's wrong with "-l ~/.emacs"? The difference in the loading >> > order is a non-issue in batch mode anyway. >> >> not portable. > > Sorry, I don't understand. Please elaborate: when does it not work > and why? One possibility: maybe the init file is actually ~/.emacs.el, or ~/.emacs.d/init.el, etc. So the caller would have to do (a small amount of) actual work to locate it, rather than just letting Emacs handle it transparently as normal. (It sure would waste less time if reports were less vague, particularly when asking for new features to be implemented.)