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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Document -xrm more
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:24:20 +0800

On (info "(emacs) Resources")

‘-xrm RESOURCE-VALUES’
‘--xrm=RESOURCE-VALUES’
     This option specifies X resource values for the present Emacs job.

     RESOURCE-VALUES should have the same format that you would use
     inside a file of X resources.  To include multiple resource
     specifications in RESOURCE-VALUES, put a newline between them, just
     as you would in a file.  You can also use ‘#include "FILENAME"’ to
     include a file full of resource specifications.  Resource values
     specified with ‘-xrm’ take precedence over all other resource
     specifications.

Mention if it nullifies all Emacs entries in .Xresources, or just
overrides matching ones.

Also on man emacs

       You can set X default values for your Emacs windows in your
       .Xresources file (see xrdb(1)). Use the following format:

              emacs.keyword:value

but do mention -xrm there on the man page, so people don't have to
bother with the .Xresources file just to try a quick item.

P.S., at the bottom of the man page we see
GNU Emacs 26.1         2007 April 13          EMACS(1)
which looks new on the left but old in the middle, here on Debian.

Message #8 received at 34002 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 34002 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34002: Document -xrm more
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:26:04 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> ‘-xrm RESOURCE-VALUES’
> ‘--xrm=RESOURCE-VALUES’
>      This option specifies X resource values for the present Emacs job.
>
>      RESOURCE-VALUES should have the same format that you would use
>      inside a file of X resources.  To include multiple resource
>      specifications in RESOURCE-VALUES, put a newline between them, just
>      as you would in a file.  You can also use ‘#include "FILENAME"’ to
>      include a file full of resource specifications.  Resource values
>      specified with ‘-xrm’ take precedence over all other resource
>      specifications.
>
> Mention if it nullifies all Emacs entries in .Xresources, or just
> overrides matching ones.

It says that the values takes precedence over the other, so "nullifies"
isn't something I think people would interpret that as.  That is, it
doesn't sound ambiguous to me, and I've never read that bit before.

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