Re: loading specific .emacs file on command line?

[Kevin Rodgers]

john doe wrote:

> Is there a line switch to load a specific .emacs
> file... if you have more than one for the same user?
> My problem is I have large sections of my .emacs file
> that I want to use sometimes and not other times. Can
> I have large sections of the .emacs file load only for
> some files and not others?

You could break your .emacs file into multiple *.el files, byte-compile them
if you want, and either load them from your .emacs file:

(if foo
  (load-file "~/foo"))
(if bar
  (load-file "~/bar"))

or load them explicitly on the command line:

emacs
emacs -l ~/foo
emacs -l ~/bar
emacs -l ~/foo -l ~/bar

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