Re: How to specify customized configuration file rather than "~/.emacs" ?

[PJ Weisberg]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:42:59PM +0530, Jambunathan K wrote:
>> Z C <zcnnbb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I just want emacs to load another file as the configuration file, and
>> > ignore the default file ("~/.emacs").
>> >
>> > Note that I don't want to change the original "~/.emacs" file.
>> >
>> > I've tried to change "$HOME" env variable, but it doesn't work.
>> >
>>
>> Load emacs with custom options.
>>
>> ,----
>> | $ emacs --help | grep load
>> |
>> | --no-desktop                do not load a saved desktop
>> | --no-init-file, -q          load neither ~/.emacs nor default.el
>> | --no-site-file              do not load site-start.el
>> | --user, -u USER             load ~USER/.emacs instead of your own
>> | --directory, -L DIR     add DIR to variable load-path
>> | --load, -l FILE         load Emacs Lisp FILE using the load function
>> `----
>>
>
> To elaborate with an example:
>
>   $ emacs -q -l ~/special-config.el
>
> or,
>
>   $ emacs -Q -l ~/special-config.el

You'll probably also want to put (setq user-init-file
"~/special-config.el") in that file, or Emacs will refuse to save
customizations

-PJ

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