Re: change location of .emacs

[Hadron]

Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu> writes:

> In article <871wkjpiaz.fsf@gmail.com>, Hadron wrote:
>> 
>> A quick google shows me I can change the "user" with -u to pick up that
>> users .emacs, but how to just say I want MY ".emacs" which is in another
>> directory? I wish to keep my .emacs in my "lisp" directory and tell
>> emacs about it on the command line. Possible?
>
> To learn about emacs maybe not google but read the documentation? See
> command line arguments section in the manual, you seem to be looking
> for 
> emacs -q -l lispdirectory/your.emacs.file
>
> hth

There is no "-l" option mentioned in my emacs command line "C2. initial options"
startup section other than when running emacs in batch.