From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: torys.anderson@gmail.com, Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Limiting init loading when running --batch
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:00:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44d850c0-fe05-4c7d-b50e-5baa68e45181@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d55f9f3-8c16-49f4-b55c-8c0c75d4a59e@default>
> > I use --batch as part of a shell script to export my orgmode agenda as an
> > ICS file and upload it to a server where it is read by Google Calendar.
> But
> > when I run batch, it loads my entire emacs (most of which is not necessary
> > for this operation) and sometimes chokes on lines that are apparently
> > incompatible. Is there a way to avoid loading the whole init file, or to
> > prepend lines with something that would except them from batch runs?
>
> You can test the variable `noninteractive' in your init file, and
> load or invoke code conditionally, depending on the value.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Batch-Mode.html
Which you can find by using `i' in the Elisp manual and typing `batch TAB'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 3:33 Limiting init loading when running --batch Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-05 3:59 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-05 4:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2015-03-05 4:16 ` Emanuel Berg
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