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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, 59743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59743: Implement `command-line-args-left' for emacsclient --eval expressions
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 18:16:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29ab47d9-507a-08ae-9b40-0662168eb9cb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438a7286-ee4c-74a1-c24b-d788a6507ad6@gmail.com>

On 12/1/2022 7:06 AM, Max Nikulin wrote:
> I propose to expand protocol of communication between emacsclient and 
> server to allow passing of arbitrary arguments for --eval expression
> that are not treated as files. The goal is to pass strings to evaluated 
> expressions in a safe way without necessity of escaping double quotes 
> and backslashes.
> 
> I suggest to add e,g, --args option of emacsclient that transfers 
> everything after it (including arguments starting with dash) to server 
> and causes let-binding the list to command-line-args-left (or another 
> variable) before execution of preceding --eval options.

I believe this is a duplicate of bug#57752, where I and several others 
previously discussed a few options to solve this.





      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-01 15:06 bug#59743: Implement `command-line-args-left' for emacsclient --eval expressions Max Nikulin
2022-12-02  2:16 ` Jim Porter [this message]

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