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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:20:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y3zymy30.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdoj-DLtFVY4b9nJs3WDJ4g=13Wkwr8J1aDWeufXGaR-Exg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Reuben Thomas on Thu, 1 Dec 2016 15:31:18 +0000)

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 15:31:18 +0000
> 
> The attached patch adds support to emacsclient for command-line options when specifying the alternate
> editor, so that for example one can now say:
> 
> ALTERNATE_EDITOR="emacs -Q -nw"
> 
> I have added documentation to NEWS. It did not seem necessary to change the man page, as nowhere does
> it imply that you can't do this, and I implemented the feature when I found that it didn't work as I expected;
> other similar environment variables with which users may be familiar, such as EDITOR and VISUAL, already
> work like this.

Thanks.

Does this work if -batch is added to the switches?  If so, can you add
a test for this capability?





  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-01 15:31 bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor Reuben Thomas
2016-12-02 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-02 15:31   ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-08 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-09 13:44   ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-20 21:08     ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22  0:16       ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-22  0:23         ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22  0:52           ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-23 22:59   ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-27 14:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 10:15       ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 15:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 15:49           ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 16:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 22:29               ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 16:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-30 21:01                   ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 21:02 ` bug#25082: Patch installed Reuben Thomas

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