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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
Cc: iota@whxvd.name, minshall@umich.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs script options
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:21:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83msval0u0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25945.38731.648751.897766@orion.rgrjr.com> (message from Bob Rogers on Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:04:11 -0800)

> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:04:11 -0800
> From: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>     Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> A more portable option might be for emacs itself to change its startup
> behavior if invoked under a special name.

The GNU Coding Standards frown on such practices:

  Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used to
  invoke it.  It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with a
  different name, and that should not change what it does.  Thus, if you
  make 'foo' a link to 'ls', the program should behave the same regardless
  of which of those names is used to invoke it.



      reply	other threads:[~2023-11-19  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-18  3:13 (unknown) Greg Minshall
2023-11-18  7:05 ` (unknown) Jim Porter
2023-11-18 14:10   ` (unknown) -x behavior change Greg Minshall
2023-11-18  7:36 ` Emacs script options Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-18 14:38   ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-18 16:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-18 19:36       ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-19  5:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27  3:29   ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-27 12:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-27 19:32       ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-18 19:18 ` Sebastian Miele
2023-11-18 19:49   ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-19 21:39     ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-19 21:47       ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-20  1:19         ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-21 21:13           ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-22 18:17             ` Sebastian Miele
2023-11-22 20:18               ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-24  4:22             ` Greg Minshall
2023-11-26 18:07               ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-20  6:10         ` Sebastian Miele
2023-11-20 20:10           ` Jens Schmidt
2023-11-21  8:51             ` Sebastian Miele
2023-11-19  5:04   ` Bob Rogers
2023-11-19  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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