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Re: About Emacs invocation


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: About Emacs invocation
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:23:10 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux)

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> In (info "(eintr) Simple Extension"):
>
>   When I start instances of Emacs that do not load my `.emacs'
>   file or any site file, I also turn off blinking:
>
>      emacs -q --no-site-file -eval '(blink-cursor-mode nil)'
>
>   Or nowadays, using an even more sophisticated set of options,
>
>      emacs -Q - D
>
> What does the second invocation mean?  I've read (info "(emacs) Emacs
> Invocation"), but I don't find anything useful.  Can anybody help?
> Thanks.

emacs --help explains both options.

--quick, -Q  equivalent to:
          -q --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --no-splash


--basic-display, -D  disable many display features;
                     used for debugging Emacs

-- 
Dan Espen


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