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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 72169-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72169: emacs --user documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:18:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v813ffba.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frs78jqz.1.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Thu,  18 Jul 2024 11:24:52 +0800)

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:24:52 +0800
> 
> $ man emacs
>     -u user, --user=user
>                       Load user's init file.
> 
> Add:
>         instead of yours.
> Or:
>         in addition to yours.

See "emacs --help" and the Emacs user manual for a better description.

I don't see a need to invest efforts in making the man page better.
We prefer the Info manual and the on-line help for a reason.

So I'm closing this bug report.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-18  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-18  3:24 bug#72169: emacs --user documentation Dan Jacobson
2024-07-18  5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-18  8:32   ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-18  8:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21  3:00 ` Richard Stallman

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