Re: Alternate init file, take two

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:32:57 +0200 Mathias Dahl wrote:

> August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:
>
>> Henrik Enberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to instruct Emacs to use an alternative
>>>> initialization file, something like
>>>>
>>>>    $ emacs --init-file=~/.emacs2
>>> emacs -q --load ~/.emacs2
>>
> 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.

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")

[...]

(load custom-file t)

David