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

〔see Emacs: Command Line Options〕

On Microsoft Windows

On Windows, to start emacs with command line options, you can use PowerShell. 〔see PowerShell Tutorial〕

Start Emacs with Different Init File

emacs -q -l InitFilePath