Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option

[Kim F. Storm]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> > I think I explained _WHY_ I want a single, easy-to-type, option:
> >
> >   When I work on debugging redisplay related problems in emacs (I seem
> >   to be doing that quite a lot), I usually need to start emacs with as
> >   few display elements (like tool-bars, menu-bar, scroll-bars, etc) as
> >   possible, as well as not loading any of the various init files,
> 
> What's wrong with shell aliases/functions/scripts/whatever?

Nothing ... except that I need a script for starting emacs in gdb
inside emacs, a script for starting emacs in gdb outside emacs, a
script for starting emacs from the shell, ...

And I would like to be able to ask a person reporting a redisplay
related problem to see if the problem persists with emacs -Q (just as
we ask people to try ordinary bugs with emacs -q).

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk