What I specifically need is that, let emacs treat another file as the
"~/.emacs" file.
This file should behaves EXACTLY as "~/.emacs" except that they have
different file name.

*That means, if I click Options -> Save Options, emacs would write changes
to this specific file.*

Start up option "-q" and "-l" doesn't solve this specific requirement.


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Z C <zcnnbb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just want emacs to load another file as the configuration file, and
> ignore the default file ("~/.emacs").
>
> Note that I don't want to change the original "~/.emacs" file.
>
> I've tried to change "$HOME" env variable, but it doesn't work.
>