From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sesquicolon -- Note: Not a Bug Date: 26 Aug 2002 10:53:22 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200208250526.g7P5Q3F11930@wijiji.santafe.edu> <20020825053748.GA2511@gnu.org> <200208260036.g7Q0aC012352@wijiji.santafe.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030326890 853 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2002 01:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: polymath@uwyo.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17j95d-0000De-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:54:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17j9aF-0004ft-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17j96s-0004eW-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17j955-0004cA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17j952-0004bn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17j94x-0004bL-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g7Q1rS401878; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:28 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g7Q1rS519471; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:28 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g7Q1rRc27281; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g7Q1rNs15887; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E1B9636F2; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:22 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200208260036.g7Q0aC012352@wijiji.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 29 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6892 Richard Stallman writes: > What's wrong with just adding a single option that has the > necessary semantics? > > Would that do the job? I don't know the precise rules of what #! can > do. If that would do the job, it is a fine solution. We could call > it --script. To the best of my knowledge, you're allowed exactly one option (which will go before the filename). I think Stefan's suggestion to special-case --batch to load the following filename argument when there's no other options seems sensible (it seems very unlikely to conflict with current usage, since surely everyone using --batch now also uses -l, -f, or --exec). > Special casing on stdin-is-a-file seems wrong because someone > might want to runan elisp-script from a terminal. > > It is slightly inelegant to special case it, but there should be other > ways to do this -- which isn't a very useful thing to do. I don't know... it sounds very useful to me -- elisp is a fine language for writing interactive scripts, even if they don't use the full-screen redisplay. -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'