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.