From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sesquicolon -- Note: Not a Bug Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:36:12 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208260036.g7Q0aC012352@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200208250526.g7P5Q3F11930@wijiji.santafe.edu> <20020825053748.GA2511@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030322277 26140 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2002 00:37:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: polymath@uwyo.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17j7tE-0006nV-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17j8No-0002rl-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:09:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17j7uR-0001v4-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17j7rf-0001Iq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17j7rc-0001Hy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17j7ra-0001H5-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7Q0ab510134; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:36:37 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7Q0aC012352; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:36:12 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20020825053748.GA2511@gnu.org> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 25 Aug 2002 01:37:48 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6885 What's wrong with just adding a single option that has the necessary semantics? Would that do the job? I don't know the precise rules of what #! can do. If that would do the job, it is a fine solution. We could call it --script. Would you like to implement it? Special casing on stdin-is-a-file seems wrong because someone might want to runan elisp-script from a terminal. It is slightly inelegant to special case it, but there should be other ways to do this -- which isn't a very useful thing to do.