Re: Emacs script options

[Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>]

Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name> wrote:

> On Linux that can be achieved by defining a custom interpreter.  E.g.,
> put the following into ‘/path/to/emacs-script’:

yes, thanks.  R has similar (Rscript in R itself; r in littler).  for a
script writer, it's somewhat of a barrier, wondering how many potential
users' machines will have such a script installed; for users, it's one
more hurdle between them and making use of a provided script.

one could also *imagine* (i.e., i think this could work) a packaging
step that would turn one's elisp script into a string and embed it
inside a "#!/bin/sh" script that would unquote the string and feed it
(along with the command line arguments) to Emacs.  if that worked, it at
least would remove the minor hurdle of needing the custom interpreter
you suggest (since everything -- in my fantaxy -- would be in one file).
it seems very messy, though.

cheers, Greg