Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

>>>> It is used specially for reproducing bugs in a clean environment, see it
>>>> as emacs -Q for Emacs when reporting bugs. This script starts Emacs -Q
>>>> with only Helm loaded, this ensure the bug if one comes from Helm and
>>>> not another package. This is important especially nowaday people are
>>>> using "Emacs distribution" with the world list of packages installed.
>>>> Apart that the script is useful to quickly launch Emacs with helm, one
>>>> can use it from the Helm directory or symlinked to e.g. ~/bin. 
>>>
>>> I see.  In that case is there any reason you implement this as a shell
>>> script?
>>
>> Well when I wrote the script, packages where not existing and from
>> outside emacs it is actually the only way to run a package isolated.
>>
>>> (It might be interesting to provide something like this for
>>> package.el, to test packages in a generic way.)
>>
>> Yes, this would be interesting, it would be something like this:
>>
>> Emacs -Q
>> M-x <A command that run a package alone, isolated from other
>> packages nuisances>
>
> I was actually thinking of a command like
>
> M-x package-isolate RET foo,bar,baz RET
>
> and a new instance of Emacs using -Q is spun up, with all the packages
> you have listed loaded, and nothing else... Sounds like a fun little
> weekend project ;^)

Here is my first attempt at providing this kind of a command.  Any
comments?