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> From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:48:41 +0100
> 
> According to --help, --no-desktop should be a valid option to emacs.
> But when one does, `emacs --no-desktop', it errors out and complains
> that it is a unknown option.

Thanks for reporting this.

It turns out that --no-desktop would only be processed if desktop.el
was loaded in ~/.emacs or in some other init file.  I fixed this for
the case, like yours, when desktop.el was not loaded.  Please see that
the error is gone now.