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From: Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: Alternative init file
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:21:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050919132140.GM21355@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZsyXe.146619$dP1.503354@newsc.telia.net>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:48:57PM +0000, August Karlstrom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to instruct Emacs to use an alternative initialization 
> file, something like
> 
>    $ emacs --init-file=~/.emacs2
> 

Would this work?

$ emacs -q -l ~/.emacs2

You might also want to try 

$ man emacs

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 12:48 Alternative init file August Karlstrom
2005-09-19 13:21 ` Neon Absentius [this message]
2005-09-19 13:27 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-09-19 13:30 ` David Kastrup
     [not found] ` <mailman.7492.1127136943.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-19 20:52   ` August Karlstrom
2005-09-20  7:32     ` Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) Mathias Dahl
2005-09-20  7:45       ` Alternate init file, take two Ralf Angeli
2005-09-21  7:42         ` Mathias Dahl
2005-09-20  8:48       ` David Hansen
2005-09-20  9:46       ` Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) Peter Dyballa
2005-09-20  9:49       ` Tim X

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