From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How specify on the command line which .emacs to use? Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:04:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8737ysl03f.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441508214 22416 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 02:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:56:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 04:56:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ8J-0008N6-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ8J-0004Th-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ88-0004TW-JP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ84-00041x-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ84-00041g-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQ82-00087Y-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:56:26 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:56:26 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:56:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R2C7Ed96OQxNj3DPHR8sPi0VpQ4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107043 Archived-At: BobD writes: > Is there a way I can specify on the command line > which .emacs file to use? emacs(1) says: -u user, --user user Load user's init file. > I am now using this command line: runemacs.exe -q -l > /Directory/.emacs The "-q" means not to use a .emacs > file. The "-l" loads the named file. But the "-q" > suppresses saving customizations. Don't use customize, instead edit the .emacs file(s) by hand using any text editor around - why not Emacs itself? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573