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


From: Jambunathan K
Subject: Re: How to specify customized configuration file rather than "~/.emacs" ?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:42:59 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

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
`----

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