From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174142368 1734 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2007 14:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:39:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 17 15:39:26 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 1HSa45-0004L9-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:39:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HSa5J-0000uB-Jq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.250.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1174139038 3185 166.84.1.3 (17 Mar 2007 13:43:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:43:58 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146425 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:42029 Archived-At: In Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: kj >> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:15:15 +0000 (UTC) >> >> 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. >You are only partly wrong: Emacs has a --load command-line switch that >would load any file you name. But such loading is not 100% equivalent >to how Emacs loads a .emacs file, because .emacs is read at a certain >point during the Emacs session startup, while files given via --load >are read at a different point. So the effects could be subtly >different, especially with respect to display setup. That's good to know, thanks, but, again, I'm puzzled: why would Emacs treat ~/.emacs differently from a user-specified alternative? It seems perversely unaccommodating on Emacs' part (even if only in a passive-agressive sort of way :) ) >Could you please tell why you don't want to have a .emacs file? Nothing against an .emacs file, but occasionally I want to run Emacs with a drastically different set of customizations from what's in my .emacs file. Since a lot of these customizations pertain display, I need to do some experimentation to determine whether the --load option will do what I need. kj -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.