From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>,
Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
git@mavit.org.uk, 57752@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:56:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2d812f2ba10bfb33325@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgex56bw.fsf@gnus.org>
>> emacs --apply func arg1 arg2
>
> Yes, that sounds good.
>
Hmm... I did not see the --apply proposal earlier, it's nice and lispy
indeed.
I think I would prefer to separate the two concerns (stuffing argument
strings into the Lisp environment on the one hand, and forms on the other
hand), but it seems good enough, and perhaps it's the best compromise.
One disadvantage I see is that it becomes a bit more complex to write
function calls with arguments that are not strings. E.g. to call
(some-func 1 "arg" t)
one would have to do something like
--eval '(defun tmp-func (arg) (some-func 1 arg t))' --apply tmp-func arg
instead of something like
--set args arg -- --eval '(some-func 1 (car args) t)'
Likewise, if we want to use the arguments in multiple --eval forms,
something like
--eval '(defun setarg1 (arg) (setq arg1 arg))' --apply setarg1 arg -- --eval '(... arg1 ...)' --eval '(... arg1 ...)'
will be necessary. Yet another example is that to loop over all
arguments, one would have to do something like
--eval '(defun loop-fun (args) (dolist (arg args) ...))' --apply loop-fun args
instead of something like
--set args arg -- --eval '(dolist (arg args) ...)'
One case in which --apply is better is when the function is already
defined by Emacs, e.g. (with the .desktop example mentioned upthread, and
assuming that find-many-files is defined by Emacs)
--apply find-many-files %F
is probably clearer than
--set files %F -- --eval '(find-many-files files)'
>
> (But we'd still need "--" to say that the arguments have ended.)
>
Except for the last argument(s), of course. IOW, except if there are no
arguments that must not be passed to the function after the function
arguments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-19 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-12 18:31 bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me Damien Cassou
2022-09-13 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13 13:29 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-13 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-13 13:58 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-13 14:57 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-13 15:32 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-15 18:30 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-16 9:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-16 10:09 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-16 10:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-16 14:18 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-16 15:21 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-16 12:38 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-16 12:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 14:46 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-16 15:07 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 16:18 ` Peter Oliver
2022-09-16 16:42 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 17:21 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-16 18:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-16 19:33 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-16 20:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 13:58 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-16 14:19 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-16 14:47 ` Damien Cassou
2022-09-16 15:17 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-18 10:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 14:46 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-19 8:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 18:31 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-19 8:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 15:48 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-19 18:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 8:56 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-09-19 12:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 16:05 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-19 17:01 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-02 14:52 ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-26 5:14 ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-16 19:42 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-18 10:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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