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helo=localhost; envelope-from=sbaugh@catern.com; receiver=gnu.org Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by earth.catern.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A0A360129; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:35:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87il8dt3sh.fsf@catern.com> (sbaugh@catern.com's message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:03:44 +0000 (UTC)") X-SG-EID: ZgbRq7gjGrt0q/Pjvxk7wM0yQFRdOkTJAtEbkjCkHbJMDlYe6YMWlSeLtU4L7OBKbcfQPBu4ptfh+7c8hKtnpX/scgTHVfJ+w7G+Em242VIUm6fpYaN9VGXwZyPxHK3ZVuQOANv4hMAWhKl4OPfLhhUStUESeATo66kSasa2yQp27RSmNmbcX9IeEOwJ3e6XBO+aElFXSePVdJKJIz2iJA== X-Entity-ID: d/0VcHixlS0t7iB1YKCv4Q== X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:270415 Archived-At: sbaugh@catern.com writes: > - Finally, a fourth approach is to teach emacsclient to be able to send > this arbitrary data to Emacs on its own. Such as by adding --apply. > There are a bunch of designs for that, but all of them require > modifying emacsclient. BTW, if this specific approach of --apply seems inelegant to you, I could make a different design work. As long as Lisp code gets direct access to the arguments as strings, without needing escaping. One person in the previous thread proposed making a command-line-args-left equivalent for emacsclient. If we did this, it wouldn't require adding any new arguments to the emacsclient interface. This could be called server-eval-args-left, so that --apply could be done instead as: emacsclient --eval '(progn (apply func server-eval-args-left) (setq server-eval-args-left nil))' arg1 arg2 I can do that if you prefer that, but it will require some more significant changes to the internals (because currently server.el processes -eval commands one at a time and doesn't have access to the subsequent ones).