OptionsOn emacs itself
--batch
Do not do interactive display; implies -q
--chdir
Change to directory
--daemon--bg-daemon
Start a server in the background
--fg-daemon
Start a server in the foreground
--version
Display Emacs version information and exit
--help
Display help and exit
-q--no-init-file
Do not load an init file
-nl--no-shared-memory
Do not use shared memory
--no-site-file-nsl
Do not load the site-wide startup file
--no-desktop
Do not load a saved desktop
-Q--quick
Similar to "-q --no-site-file --no-splash", Also, avoid processing X resources
--no-splash
Do not display a splash screen during start-u
--debug-init
Enable Emacs Lisp debugger during the processing of the user init file ~/.emacs. This is useful for debugging problems in the init file
-u--user
Load user's init file
-t--terminal
Use specified file as the terminal instead of using stdin/stdout. This must be the first argument specified in the command line <value>
--file--find-file--visit
The same as specifying file directly as an argument <value>