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From: Mandar Mitra <mandar.mitra@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "emacs" and "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.elc" behave differently
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:53:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121015182302.GA21200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SQoy01CYUiPMWnn7SKcJJMMTRCvu3YF+Yc78XhWcsD9CA@mail.gmail.com>

Juanma Barranquero wrote (Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:09:30PM +0200):
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, mandar.mitra <mandar.mitra@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression that running emacs and running
> > "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.elc" would be the same
> 
> Generally speaking, no. The sequence of actions will be different.
> Take a look at the "Startup Summary" node of the Emacs Lisp Reference
> Manual.

Thanks for the pointer!

More details in case anyone else finds this useful: init file loading
happens in step 12, and "command-line options that were not handled
earlier" (presumably this includes -l) are processed in step 21. In
between, it does a bunch of stuff like calling package-initialize,
after-init-hook, etc.



      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 16:27 "emacs" and "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.elc" behave differently mandar.mitra
2012-10-15 17:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-10-15 18:23   ` Mandar Mitra [this message]

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