From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs script options Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:21:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83msval0u0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1325582.1700277236@archlinux> <83cyw7o6m3.fsf@gnu.org> <1496758.1700318304@archlinux> <83cyw7m3rr.fsf@gnu.org> <7094.1700336212@archlinux> <25945.38731.648751.897766@orion.rgrjr.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22423"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: iota@whxvd.name, minshall@umich.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bob Rogers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 07:22:42 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r4bCc-0005dK-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:22:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4bCG-0000GJ-TE; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:22:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4bCE-0000G8-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:22:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4bCD-00052S-JG; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:22:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=J28BgHnJMlNxJ5wX42tKchU7NNzymVJSEtg/E1kGXjU=; b=Y/c/fcykch0p RkiQ/1zNJK7rAeO8KbFr7e+LA2MAw1ght9/4QNv0DXarW47kZy2wFwLrPKxTobMsS11VX7NMDRc3y csIQwMceRhSC37YuvkXq5WGBLMUrlCd52c3g3NO52Ttm4mxMAAo1OqnKhEJKs0iuhsBwoY395f/Ck 50nAEQWZJHqbQUdPVfPLgdlSmPw+V58fllqRxTfbeZrn3M+dSIdRVPNdgB0aKw0shjy3Avey5+mvA qsbaaPtH+i1WAji1qmsv0DQJfpQxZi+ffoY8kZVURAo1d4X6kVMXgNrq/Sot9ErHDrVWS1vGNTwM6 gCSCLyAN659FGPWFCIlQMg==; In-Reply-To: <25945.38731.648751.897766@orion.rgrjr.com> (message from Bob Rogers on Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:04:11 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312947 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:04:11 -0800 > From: Bob Rogers > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, > Eli Zaretskii > > 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.