From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sesquicolon -- Note: Not a Bug Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:08:11 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208262208.g7QM8BV26491@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200208250526.g7P5Q3F11930@wijiji.santafe.edu> <20020825053748.GA2511@gnu.org> <87bs7r9s0y.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <200208261253.g7QCrEO12478@wijiji.santafe.edu> <87k7md71yt.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030399892 27428 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2002 22:11:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, 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 17jS51-000786-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17jSa2-0007uD-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:43:30 +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 17jS6K-000247-00; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jS23-0001WA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jS20-0001VO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jS1w-0001Tf-00; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7QM8BV26491; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:08:11 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Marius Vollmer 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:6944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6944 > Richard Stallman writes: > > > It was suggested that just -batch with no other arguments > > could do this. > > The '#!' mechanism would not result in -batch with no other arguments. > The file name of the script is added to the end of the command line. Sure, that's what was meant. `emacs -batch would execute the file in batch mode. > Why do you need to reuse the "-batch" name? Why not ? > Can't it just be a new name, like "--batch-script"? We could do that as well. Note that some systems have a limit of 32 chars past which the #! things are ignored: your suggestion takes 14 chars, which doesn't leave much to the "path to emacs plus space". The reuse of --batch (and thus -b as well) is preferable from that point of view. But of course, we could also use -B or whatever else we may fancy. Stefan