Re: About Emacs invocation

[Gregory Benjamin]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:52:10PM +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> 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.

Assuming '- D' is a typo, and you wanted '-D', from 'emacs --help':

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

Best,
Greg Benjamin