40.1 Starting Up Emacs

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

• Startup Summary		Sequence of actions Emacs performs at startup.
• Init File		Details on reading the init file.
• 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.