From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --no-desktop broken? Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:32:54 +0100 Message-ID: <43D36D66.9010108@soem.dk> References: <1137804521.206430.18968.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> <43D2012A.8050406@soem.dk> <2E5FEB1A-6442-41BC-BDEC-60A1B45C13E6@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137946924 23675 80.91.229.2 (22 Jan 2006 16:22:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 22 17:22:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0hyP-0001zB-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:21:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0hxh-0007a5-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F0hH7-0006sB-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F0eAI-0001vA-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0dVW-0007Bd-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.99.225.245] (helo=odin.broadcom.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1F0da2-0007dC-2n; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from pppoe3-ves.broadcom.dk ([212.99.255.42] helo=[10.17.1.133]) by odin.broadcom.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1F0dSm-00023Q-Kh; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:32:52 +0100 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Ken Raeburn In-Reply-To: <2E5FEB1A-6442-41BC-BDEC-60A1B45C13E6@raeburn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49395 Archived-At: Ken Raeburn wrote: > In the long term (i.e., maybe too much to change right now), perhaps > we could have arbitrary command-line options handled via Lisp code, > with a table or something indicating the file to be loaded or > function to be invoked to process the option, and some mechanism akin > to loaddefs.el for collecting the options and their help messages > from various Lisp files and making them available to be printed out > if --help is given. Aside from actually invoking some Lisp code when > --help is given, I think this could mostly be done in new Lisp code. I agree that some kind of table approach may be considered at some later time. But not now ;-)