From: John H Swaby <polymath@uwyo.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:05:03 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10209092204001.29796-100000@asuwlink.uwyo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wupuwxin.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
Great Idea!
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> John H Swaby <polymath@uwyo.edu> writes:
>
> > :;exec emacs -batch -l $0 -f main $*
> [...]
> > [ For older versions of Emacs, adding the arguments "-eval
> > '(setq : t)'" to the sesquicolon line will take care of Emacs's
> > evaluation of the colon. ]
>
> You could start the script with
>
> ":";exec emacs ...
>
> since ":" is the same as : to the shell and is self-evaluating in all
> versions of Emacs. The would be a quosesquicolon, then, right? Or a
> sequoscilon?
>
> --
> GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-08 6:39 Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang John H Swaby
2002-09-08 11:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-09 23:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-09-10 4:05 ` John H Swaby [this message]
2002-09-10 22:08 ` Marius Vollmer
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