Re: How to dump Emacs and use as application snapshot?

[Leo Butler]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

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> I would like to be able to dump the emacs how it is, and then later
> just open it up similar to application snapshot feature at Amiga or
> Dragonfly BSD.
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> There is talk in Antinews about portable dumper, so that may exist
> now, it will not exist back in time.
>
> dump-emacs-portable can only be done from command line, it would mean
> my configuration would not work, --batch implies -q so I would need to
> load my init.el
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> This works:
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> emacs --batch -eval "(dump-emacs-portable \"~/my-emacs\")"
> dumping fingerprint: 
> f5190a787b51041c110477031336a3a463d20c2fa433c129c2cc69f4fb191d71
> Dump complete
> Byte counts: header=84 hot=7180724 discardable=125760 cold=3356344
> Reloc counts: hot=402727 discardable=4826
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> But this does not work:
>
> emacs --batch -eval "(load-file \"~/.emacs.d/init.el\") (dump-emacs-portable 
> \"~/my-emacs\")"
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> and this does not work:
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> emacs --batch -eval "(setq my-var \"any\") (dump-emacs-portable 
> \"~/my-emacs\")"
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> Any way to do it?

Have you tried wrapping your eval stanza in a progn form?

emacs --batch -eval '(progn (do-the-stuff you want) (dump-emacs-portable))'

Leo