From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Bergvelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternative initialization file Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics, UIUC. Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bergv@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153950056 5102 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 21:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 23:40:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5r7Z-00026l-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5r7Z-0005mt-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:40:49 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ks.uiuc.edu 1153946907 564 130.126.108.244 (26 Jul 2006 20:48:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news+abuse@ks.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:48:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140634 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:36263 Archived-At: In article , August Karlstrom wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to launch Emacs with an alternative > initialization file (for one session only)? I'm looking for something like > > emacs --use-init-file foo.el does emacs -q -l file do what you want? See man emacs or the emacs manual, section on command line arguments. -- Maarten Bergvelt