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I'm using the emacs/stable,stable,now 1:28.2+1-15 Debian package with Doom and am trying to change startup behavior. I made backups of startup.el.gz and startup.elc located at /usr/share/emacs/28.2/lisp/. After trying to change startup-behavior in vain I eventually deleted startup.elc entirely. When I try emacs +2 anyfile it still works flawlessly, despite the line-specifying functionality being implemented in lines 2440+ and 2578+ of startup.el. I verified that there was no emacs daemon running when executing the above command. What is going on here? How do I change startup behavior?

My end goal is allowing for negative line and column parameters which are counted from the end.

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startup.el and some others (see loadup.el) are loaded from a dumped Emacs, not from the Lisp files – that’s why your changes are not being reflected.

You’ll have make your changes and then either:

  • Re-dump, and make sure to start Emacs with --dump-file /path/to/your/new/dump; or
  • Build from source.

BTW, your init files are loaded before command-line-1 is called, so there’s nothing preventing you from re-implementing it with your own handling of negative line numbers and columns. Simply copy its definition to your early-init.el file and make whatever changes you like.

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  • Thanks, I added my custom command-line-1 to early-init.el but that doesn't affect emacsclient. Do you know how to address that? emacs.stackexchange.com/q/79250/41212 Commented Oct 23, 2023 at 10:36

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