From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173983972 3126 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2007 18:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:39:32 +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 19:39:26 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-0007mH-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:39:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HRusH-00086l-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1173982515 7605 166.84.1.3 (15 Mar 2007 18:15:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:15:15 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146389 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:41993 Archived-At: 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! TIA! kj -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.