From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Arni Magnusson <arnima@hafro.is>
Cc: 5519@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5519: command-switch-alist
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:50:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vh0s2uc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002032248370.29290@hafstormur.hafro.is>
> The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (section 39.1.4) describes the
> variable `command-switch-alist', saying specifically that the CAR should
> be a string, _not_ including the initial hyphen.
>
> My experiments indicate that the CAR string should indeed include the
> initialy hyphen. I can create a custom option using "-c",
>
> (setq command-switch-alist '(("-c" . (lambda (arg)(c-mode)))))
> $ emacs -c # starts successfully in c-mode
>
> but not using "c":
>
> (setq command-switch-alist '(("c" . (lambda (arg)(c-mode)))))
> $ emacs -c # Emacs says: Unknown option `-c'
>
> Therefore, it appears that there is a bug either in Emacs or the Lisp
> manual, since they disagree on whether the CAR string should include the
> initial hyphen or not.
Thanks for the bug report. This was a bug in Emacs 23 (Emacs 22 worked
according to the description in the Elisp manual). I've checked in a
fix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 23:07 bug#5519: command-switch-alist Arni Magnusson
2010-02-05 4:50 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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