Nick Dokos: Re: Why not emacs -Q for byte-compiling org-mode in the Makefile

Nick Dokos: Re: Why not emacs -Q for byte-compiling org-mode in the Makefile

[Nick Dokos]

[D'oh: I replied to Carsten only - sorry about that.]
 
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Date:    Sun, 03 May 2009 16:27:15 -0400
From:    Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To:      Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
cc:      nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Why not emacs -Q for byte-compiling org-mode in the Make
	  file 

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 3, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> > is there a specific reason that the Makefile uses emacs -q and not
> > emacs
> > -Q for byte-compiling org-mode?
> 
> this is a good idea, but -Q is not understood by XEmacs, and I
> am not even sure about Emacs 22.
> 

emacs-22 groks -Q (or in long form: --no-init-file --no-site-file
- --no-splash).  xemacs21[1] seems to use long form options with a single
dash: -no-init-file (== -q) and -no-site-file.

The thing is that (with git) it's easy to make such changes locally,
while waiting (perhaps for ever !-) for upstream: have a local branch
with a few changes that are specific to the local setup and rebase
after a pull.

Nick

[1] According to an online manpage: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xemacs

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