On 2017-02-18 04:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> IOW, it is not clear to me what are the expectations in this use case.
> Please take a look at how the command-line arguments are processed at
> startup, in emacs.c and in startup.el, and make a more detailed
> proposal.  Then we could see if it's easy to implement without
> potentially breaking anything.

Ted's pointer to Emacs' support for "--" solved this problem for me: when I pass "--" before "--help", Emacs doesn't process "--".  So I don't --script to be special-cased any more :)

Clément.