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>
> 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?).

Wouldn't emacs --eval '(setq option-U t)' do the same thing?  A bit 
more to
type though.

	Jan D.