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.