Starting Up

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

34.1: Starting Up Emacs

This section describes what Emacs does when it is started, and how you can customize these actions.

Start-up Summary Sequence of actions Emacs performs at start-up.

Init File Details on reading the init file (.emacs).

Terminal-Specific How the terminal-specific Lisp file is read.

Command Line Arguments How command line arguments are processed, and how you can customize them.