From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <83y3zymy30.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480674082 25158 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2016 10:21:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 10:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 11:21:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxy-00065z-1V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:21:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33615 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCky1-0004aL-S6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxr-0004XS-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxi-0001qq-PU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxi-0001qZ-MI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxi-0007Sp-Hv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:21:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25082 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 25082-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25082.148067403428630 (code B ref 25082); Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25082) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Dec 2016 10:20:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49526 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxG-0007Ri-8X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35772) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkxD-0007RS-V6 for 25082@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkx8-0001eE-4o for 25082@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkx8-0001e6-0y; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1454 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCkx7-00077b-9v; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 05:20:25 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Reuben Thomas on Thu, 1 Dec 2016 15:31:18 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126404 Archived-At: > From: Reuben Thomas > 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?