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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016@jovi.net>
Cc: 23159@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23159: 24.5; --eval bug
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:28:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3esugqx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f371c5cea623f9553522959bf188c996.squirrel@leaf.websitewelcome.com> (Emacs-Hacker2016@jovi.net)

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:40:37 -0500
> From: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016@jovi.net>
> 
> MacOSX$ Open -n /Applications/Emacs.app --args -Q --eval "(print 'foo)
> (print 'bar)"
> should either report an error or print foo bar.
> The current buggy behavior silently ignores part of the argument.

I think this is expected.  The manual says:

  ‘--eval=EXPRESSION’
  ‘--execute=EXPRESSION’
       Evaluate Lisp expression EXPRESSION.

It evaluates a single Lisp expression.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-30  2:40 bug#23159: 24.5; --eval bug Devon Sean McCullough
2016-03-30 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-03  0:30   ` npostavs
2016-07-03 10:25     ` Devon Sean McCullough
2016-07-03 18:54       ` npostavs
2016-07-07  1:12         ` npostavs

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