From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Benjamin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs invocation Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 08:17:54 -0800 Message-ID: <20130303161754.GA12434@dbn66.laserlab.com> References: <5133012A.8080305@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362327491 17587 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2013 16:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:18:11 +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 Mar 03 17:18:36 2013 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 1UCBcP-0001Gf-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCBc4-0006kL-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCBbs-0006iy-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCBbr-0002h8-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.laserlab.com ([69.229.78.89]:46968 helo=dbn66.laserlab.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCBbr-0002ge-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: by dbn66.laserlab.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 892AB20E0CF; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 08:17:54 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5133012A.8080305@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 69.229.78.89 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:89324 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:52:10PM +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote: > In (info "(eintr) Simple Extension"): > > When I start instances of Emacs that do not load my `.emacs' > file or any site file, I also turn off blinking: > > emacs -q --no-site-file -eval '(blink-cursor-mode nil)' > > Or nowadays, using an even more sophisticated set of options, > > emacs -Q - D > > What does the second invocation mean? I've read (info "(emacs) > Emacs Invocation"), but I don't find anything useful. Can anybody > help? Thanks. Assuming '- D' is a typo, and you wanted '-D', from 'emacs --help': --basic-display, -D disable many display features; used for debugging Emacs Best, Greg Benjamin