From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: BobD Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How specify on the command line which .emacs to use? Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441505117 13572 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 02:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:05:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 04:05:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYPKW-0001O3-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:05:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYPKW-0003FG-Gd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:05:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.107.162.79 with SMTP id l76mr11975181ioe.34.1441504974829; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:02:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.40.42 with SMTP id u10mr137880igk.14.1441504974774; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!kq10no1180971igb.0!news-out.google.com!nt1ni2169igb.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no918682igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=96.61.77.224; posting-account=9hbhDwoAAABs5yR7ZnWiLXjb_7uCgBXB Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.61.77.224 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 02:02:54 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214755 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107039 Archived-At: Is there a way I can specify on the command line which .emacs file to use? I am now using this command line: runemacs.exe -q -l /Directory/.emacs The "-q" means not to use a .emacs file. The "-l" loads the named file. But the "-q" suppresses saving customizations. I'd like something like this: runemacs.exe -dotemacsfile /Directory/.emacs