From: saint@eng.it
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; emacsclient --eval new behaviour
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:17:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070916191701.qzud5nmvsccggo0s@webmail.eng.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfy1howef.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Quoting Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> emacsclient -c option (and subsequently emacsclient new default
>> behaviour) may "break" compatibility with pre-existent user utilities
>> and settings when used together with -e to trigger an emacs function
>> from outside.
>
> Yes, I think that the -c argument should be reversed from "--current-frame"
> to "--create-frame".
I agree, I didn't acted that way since I accepted it as a design decision.
I think that you should imply the -n flag when -e is given with --create-frame
> The other thing that would be nice to change is to turn -t into -nw, but
> that's more difficult because currently emacsclient treats "-nw" as "-n -w"
> and its option-parsing code doesn't know how to deal with "-nw" otherwise.
> As a first step we can change --tty to --no-window-system, tho.
But are 2 letter short options common ?
--
Gian
Friends will be friends
right to the end!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-16 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 13:38 23.0.50; emacsclient --eval new behaviour Gian Uberto Lauri
2007-09-14 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-16 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-16 17:17 ` saint [this message]
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