From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to dump Emacs and use as application snapshot? Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:12:09 +0300 Organization: GNU.Support Message-ID: References: <83h7qfee8d.fsf@gnu.org> <834kmfe8au.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15860"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 22:13:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWHF-000412-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:13:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59036 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWHD-0006LI-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:13:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWGU-00069E-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:40763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXWGQ-0002fG-FT; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B3A.000000005F988D2D.00005C0A; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:12:13 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <834kmfe8au.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/27 15:43:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124751 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-10-27 23:14]: > > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:51:05 +0300 > > From: Jean Louis > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > > But this does not work: > > > > > > > > emacs --batch -eval "(load-file \"~/.emacs.d/init.el\") (dump-emacs-portable \"~/my-emacs\")" > > > > > > > > and this does not work: > > > > > > > > emacs --batch -eval "(setq my-var \"any\") (dump-emacs-portable \"~/my-emacs\")" > > > > > > The argument to "-eval" should be a single sexp. > > > > Then it implies I cannot load my configuration into Emacs to dump > > it. > > No, it implies that the syntax of the argument to -eval is incorrect. > > > --batch implies -q option > > Yes, but what does this have to do with the issue at hand? dump-emacs-portable can be invoked only under --batch which implies -q and then I do not know how to load my configuration.