C.1 Action Arguments
Here is a table of the action arguments and options:
- ‘file’
- ‘--file=file’
- ‘--find-file=file’
- ‘--visit=file’
- Visit file using
find-file. See Visiting.
If you visit several files at startup in this way, Emacs
also displays a Buffer Menu buffer to show you what files it
has visited. You can inhibit that by setting inhibit-startup-buffer-menu to t.
- ‘+linenum file’
- Visit file using
find-file, then go to line number
linenum in it.
- ‘+linenum:columnnum file’
- Visit file using
find-file, then go to line number
linenum and put point at column number columnnum.
- ‘-l file’
- ‘--load=file’
- Load a Lisp library named file with the function
load.
See Lisp Libraries. If file is not an absolute file name,
the library can be found either in the current directory, or in the
Emacs library search path as specified with EMACSLOADPATH
(see General Variables).
Warning: If previous command-line arguments have visited
files, the current directory is the directory of the last file
visited.
- ‘-L dir’
- ‘--directory=dir’
- Add directory dir to the variable
load-path.
- ‘-f function’
- ‘--funcall=function’
- Call Lisp function function. If it is an interactive function
(a command), it reads the arguments interactively just as if you had
called the same function with a key sequence. Otherwise, it calls the
function with no arguments.
- ‘--eval=expression’
- ‘--execute=expression’
- Evaluate Lisp expression expression.
- ‘--insert=file’
- Insert the contents of file into the current buffer. This is like
what M-x insert-file does. See Misc File Ops.
- ‘--kill’
- Exit from Emacs without asking for confirmation.
- ‘--help’
- Print a usage message listing all available options, then exit
successfully.
- ‘--version’
- Print Emacs version, then exit successfully.