GNU Emacs Manual - Action Arguments

Action Arguments

Here is a table of the action arguments and options:

`file'

Visit file using find-file . See Visiting.

`+linenum file'

Visit file using find-file , then go to line number linenum in it.

`-l file'

`--load=file'

Load a file file of Lisp code with the function load . See Lisp Libraries.

`-f function'

`--funcall=function'

Call Lisp function function with no arguments.

`--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.

The init file can access the values of the action arguments as the elements of a list in the variable command-line-args . The init file can override the normal processing of the action arguments, or define new ones, by reading and setting this variable.