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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
	"GNU Emacs Help" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to get command line arguments?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 20:39:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190706183938.GF17273@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878stbgm77.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

* Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> [2019-07-06 18:30]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > Tell me how do you mean?
> 
> I got curious about the variable command-line-args and checked it up,
> and the doc says
> 
> Args passed by shell to Emacs, as a list of strings.
> Many arguments are deleted from the list as they are processed.
> 
> so I thought there is a risk some argument might not be there the moment
> some custom code want to read it.

Now I understand.

I think it is meant that command-line-args is also
having those other arguments like -nw for example.

So -nw must be processed by Emacs itself and thus
it will be removed in that process.

That is just thinking.

Jean



      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-06 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-04 17:53 How to get command line arguments? Jean Louis
2019-07-04 18:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-04 20:25   ` Jean Louis
2019-07-04 22:12     ` Tomas Nordin
     [not found]       ` <EE1CB262-B4DB-4FA4-A3F6-79659AA4C17F@gnu.support>
     [not found]         ` <878stbgm77.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
2019-07-06 18:39           ` Jean Louis [this message]

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