From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs invocation Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:23:10 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362332966 993 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2013 17:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 17:49:26 +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 Mar 03 18:49:50 2013 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 1UCD2i-0007LC-1D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCD2M-0008Ja-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:49:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7e6ac87e7b6e436b7ebfebc05199ad83"; logging-data="26098"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19x6IXMB9lfx3d5oOfEVBTDSDsz8yfEJIo=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FPRB0HBs7Z71Pu+ECbue/A+q6iE= sha1:7VfAaeXhm4vJZghGjFzxx1KrJ4Q= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197042 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:49:10 -0500 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:89327 Archived-At: Xue Fuqiao writes: > In (info "(eintr) Simple Extension"): > > When I start instances of Emacs that do not load my `.emacs' > file or any site file, I also turn off blinking: > > emacs -q --no-site-file -eval '(blink-cursor-mode nil)' > > Or nowadays, using an even more sophisticated set of options, > > emacs -Q - D > > What does the second invocation mean? I've read (info "(emacs) Emacs > Invocation"), but I don't find anything useful. Can anybody help? > Thanks. emacs --help explains both options. --quick, -Q equivalent to: -q --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --no-splash --basic-display, -D disable many display features; used for debugging Emacs -- Dan Espen