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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:43:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d68tj1z5.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.1040205081556.279B-100000@acm.acm

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> I'd say, make a command-line "user option" instead or as well.  After
> all, Emacs is supposed to be user configurable.  Say, -U or -U"string".
> This would set a variable `option-U' to the string (or t) before running
> .emacs (or, possibly site-start.el?).

It is quite easy to process command line args.  See the variable
command-switch-alist.

I think this additional machinery is not required, as it does more or
less the same thing.

Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-05  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-05  1:42 Proposal: emacs -Q option Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05  1:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-02-05  6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-05  8:33   ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-02-05  9:43     ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2004-02-05 11:53     ` Jan D.
2004-02-05 12:41   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05 12:09     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-05 15:08       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05 14:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-05  7:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09 10:46   ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-05  7:29 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-05 19:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-05 19:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-07  7:54     ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-07 23:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-08  0:20         ` Steven Tamm
2004-02-08  7:19         ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-08 16:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-09  7:59             ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09  8:29               ` Miles Bader
2004-02-09  9:04                 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09  9:22                   ` Miles Bader
2004-02-10  9:46               ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-09  9:38           ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-08 15:21       ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-06 13:42   ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-08  7:12     ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09  9:38       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-05  8:42 Bill Wohler

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