Emacs Init: Ignore Init File

Start Emacs Without Loading Init File

You can start emacs without loading Init File . This is useful if you made a mistake in your init file.

# start emacs without loading init file
emacs -q

• Emacs: MacOS: Start Emacs from Terminal
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Start Emacs with Different Init File

emacs -q -l InitFilePath