Re: Question about the the "-q" option used when launchingemacs+emacspeak

[Mario Lang <mlang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nath <nath.ml@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Recently I have discovered the M-x customize option and particularly the
> emacspeak customisation facilities obtained then pressing C-e C but when
> I change an option and want to save my changes for further sessions it
> is impossible. So I tied to understind why it is impossible and find
> that is because emacs is launched with the "-q" option in the emacspeak
> script : this option tells emacs not to load the init files, and I read
> that when this option is used you can not save changes made in the
> customisation process.

Correct.

> So I would like to supprim the "-q" option in the emacspeak script.
> but I hesitate because I don't know why this option is used in the
> emacspeak script.

It prevents the loading of ~/.emacs, because that would get loaded
before any additional -l options.  So to guarantee that emacspeak-setup
is loaded before everything else, -q has to be used.  If you
look at the emacspeak launcher script, you'll notice that ~/.emacs is
added to the emacs startup command, as "-l ~/.emacs", but *after* the -l
for emacspeak-setup

> Is it necessary to use this option when using Emacspeak ?

It is necessary for the launcher script.

> or can I start emacs+emacspeak without this option ? Is it perhaps
> dangerous ?
You can achieve the same thing by loading emacspeak-setup from
your .emacs, at the very beginning of the file.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario

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