How about the following patch? The options -D and -Q are also not mentioned in the manual but perhaps they dont need to be since they are for debugging purposes.
Nick *** /home/nick/emacs/src/emacs.c.~1.364.~ 2005-04-26 17:26:45.000000000 +1200 --- /home/nick/emacs/src/emacs.c 2005-04-27 10:48:20.000000000 +1200 *************** *** 264,270 **** --no-shared-memory, -nl do not use shared memory\n\ --no-site-file do not load site-start.el\n\ --no-splash do not display a splash screen on startup\n\ ! --no-window-system, -nw don't communicate with X, ignoring $DISPLAY\n\ --script FILE run FILE as an Emacs Lisp script\n\ --terminal, -t DEVICE use DEVICE for terminal I/O\n\ --unibyte, --no-multibyte run Emacs in unibyte mode\n\ --- 264,271 ---- --no-shared-memory, -nl do not use shared memory\n\ --no-site-file do not load site-start.el\n\ --no-splash do not display a splash screen on startup\n\ ! --no-window-system, -nw do not communicate with X, ignoring $DISPLAY\n\ ! --quick, -Q equivalent to -q --no-site-file\n\ --script FILE run FILE as an Emacs Lisp script\n\ --terminal, -t DEVICE use DEVICE for terminal I/O\n\ --unibyte, --no-multibyte run Emacs in unibyte mode\n\ *************** *** 294,299 **** --- 295,302 ---- Display options:\n\ \n\ --background-color, -bg COLOR window background color\n\ + --basic-display, -D disable many display features;\n\ + used for debugging Emacs\n\ --border-color, -bd COLOR main border color\n\ --border-width, -bw WIDTH width of main border\n\ --color, --color=MODE color mode for character terminals;\n\ _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug