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

[Suvayu Ali]

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

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Suvayu

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