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31.0.50; Support --early-eval on the command line

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Message #47 received at 78304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 78304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78304: 31.0.50; Support --early-eval on the command line
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 14:34:52 -0400

Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
> <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>  How about this variation on your idea: what if we added a
>  site-early-start.el which is loaded just before early-init.el, mirroring
>  how site-start.el is loaded just before init.el?  That would be really
>  useful for my site in general, for more than just this issue, because it
>  would allow new kinds of site-wide configuration that is currently
>  impossible.
>
> That's good.  Wouldn't you want both that and a command-line option like -qe so that you can do this via the command line to aid
> testing and also provide Emacs programs that don't rely on site-early-init.el?

No, site-early-init.el would remove the need for -qe: simply export the
environment variable "EMACSLOADPATH=somedir:" where somedir contains a
site-early-init.el file which has the code you want to run "early", and
then pass -q as normal.

More awkward, of course, but it would work fine.

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