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Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:21:16 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hello, Uwe.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 13:07:37 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > I don't know, because it works for me. Did you try in "emacs -Q"?
> I also tried out emacs -q and it works as expected, but when I start
> emacs
Please don't confuse "emacs -Q" with "emacs -q" - they're not the same.
> with a .emacs file which is empty the behavior of dired changes, so
> something is loaded but what?
> According to man emacs: emacs -q just does not load the init file
> So why does not emacs -q and an empty .emacs file show the same behavior?
With "-q", you're loading site-start.el, should it exist, but not your
.emacs.
With "-Q", you don't even load site-start.el.
Hope that helps!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], jpff, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Van L, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), Richard Stallman, 2018/11/15
- Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress),
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file], Uwe Brauer, 2018/11/14