About Emacs invocation

About Emacs invocation

[Xue Fuqiao]

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.

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao

Re: About Emacs invocation

[Gregory Benjamin]

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

Re: About Emacs invocation

[Michael Heerdegen]

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Looks like a typo, "-D" would make sense.  Feel free to report.


Regards,

Michael.

Re: About Emacs invocation

[Dan Espen]

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

emacs --help explains both options.

--quick, -Q  equivalent to:
          -q --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --no-splash


--basic-display, -D  disable many display features;
                     used for debugging Emacs

-- 
Dan Espen

Re: About Emacs invocation

[Xue Fuqiao]

 >> 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?

 > Looks like a typo, "-D" would make sense.  Feel free to report.

Thanks, I'll fix them later.

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao