From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Alternate init file, take two (was: Alternative init file) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:32:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127201850 13472 80.91.229.2 (20 Sep 2005 07:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 09:37:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHcgM-0003zD-Re for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:36:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHcfn-0004Fu-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:36:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1OXvPQhmGfqC8VMeRL9/Lgfu35CNphcALI8iuVJRvNzihxCtrX User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ldy6VvNqfwZQPXmo+LnZTXWWC8M= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134020 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29579 Archived-At: August Karlstrom writes: > Henrik Enberg wrote: >>>From: August Karlstrom >>>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:48:57 GMT >>> >>> Is there a way to instruct Emacs to use an alternative >>> initialization file, something like >>> >>> $ emacs --init-file=~/.emacs2 >> emacs -q --load ~/.emacs2 > > OK, thanks everyone. One problem with this solution is that any customizations the user might do (using M-x customize), will be saved to ~/.emacs and not the alternative init file. Does anyone have any solution for this? Sometimes I want to start a more "light" Emacs with a smaller init file, but still be able to use the customize tool and save that to my smaller init file. /Mathias