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Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs
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Maarten Bergvelt |
Subject: |
Re: Inexplicable flaw: non-overridable .emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:08:43 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <etc2fj$7dl$1@reader2.panix.com>, kj wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, it is my understanding that one
> cannot use a command-line switch to tell emacs to read a config
> file *other* than the standard ~/.emacs.
>
> If this is correct, I seems to me an inexplicable design flaw. Is
> there some fundamental reason for it?
There was some discussion about this in gnu.emacs.help last month, see
the thread "change location of .emacs" especially the postings by
Eli Zaretskii.
I don't understand why people do object to using ~/.emacs, though.
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Maarten Bergvelt