From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:24:23 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85d53a1i20.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173984000 3214 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2007 18:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 19:39:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HRurg-00080x-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:39:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRusi-0008Vk-4I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:40:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Amrhl59rYNMwL6TMHEwq1uxRrc0= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Mar 2007 19:24:24 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3e3db094.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=8n8c[bBM8G>LNKYb?b>076A9EHlD; 3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF5MOK`; S:bhJ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41994 Archived-At: kj writes: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, it is my understanding that one > cannot use a command-line switch to tell emacs to read a config > file *other* than the standard ~/.emacs. > > If this is correct, I seems to me an inexplicable design flaw. Is > there some fundamental reason for it? > > Of course, if my understanding is incorrect, please toss me a > cluebrick! With the option -q it does not read any .emacs file, and with the option -l somefile.el it reads a different file. With the option -u username it reads the startup file of the given username. Did you actually read the info page concerning startup options? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum