Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option

[Juri Linkov]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> --- startup.el        2004-02-05 02:27:51.000000000 +0100
> ***************
> *** 73,78 ****
> --- 73,83 ----
>   ;; -no-splash                 Don't display a splash screen on startup.
>   ;; --no-splash
>   ;; -------------------------
> + ;; -Q                        Quick startup.  Do not load any of user's init
> + ;;                       file, "default.el", or "site-start".  Disable
> + ;;                       the tool-bar, menu-bar, scroll-bars, tool-tips,
> + ;;                       the spash screen, and the blinking cursor.
> + ;; -------------------------
>   ;; -u USER                   Load USER's init file instead of the init
>   ;; -user USER                file belonging to the user starting Emacs.
>   ;; --user USER

I found 3 places in the source tree where command line arguments are
documented:

emacs/lisp/startup.el
emacs/man/cmdargs.texi
emacs/src/emacs.c

and all of them are out of sync with the actual source code:

--help, --version, --no-shared-memory, -nl, --find-file, --directory,
-L DIR, and some display options are missed in the cmdargs.texi.

--no-desktop is not documented in the cmdargs.texi and emacs.c.

--find-file and many display options are not documented in the startup.el.

Perhaps the documentation of command line arguments in the comments
section of the startup.el is redundant because it is not helpful for users.

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