command-line-args does not work

command-line-args does not work

[ignore-this-prefixkin]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-04-21 on nscldt26
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

command-line-args does not contain the command line args
passed by shell.  For instance, command-line-args is
("emacs") in the instance of emacs invoked as "emacs -u kin".


Recent input:
SPC SPC x W W D A . SPC s h e l l ) <escape> k M-i 
M-i C-M-S-u l <return> v L M-S p w d <return> C-d M-k 
M-x s u <return> C-d M-k <M-pause> M-x e m a SPC b 
u SPC C-w C-w s e n d SPC C-g M-x a p r o SPC <return> 
b u g <return> M-SPC M-j C-s e m a c C-s C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a M-x e <backspace> r e p SPC 
p <backspace> o SPC e m <backspace> <backspace> r SPC 
<return>

Recent messages:
Inserted 54 character(s), 1 line(s)
Deleted 8 characters
Deleted 28 characters
((([...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]) lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (let* (... ...) (switch-to-buffer ...))) (([...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]) lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (let* (... ...) (my-select-frame-buffer ... i))) ([(meta 83)] . shell) (([...] [...]) lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (my-select-frame-buffer (quote home) (my-lims t))) ([(control 56)] lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (my-select-frame (my-visible-frame-list ...))) ([(control 57)] lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (my-move-mouse-home nil t)) ("\x03-" . fundamental-mode) ("=e8" . help-command) ([(meta G)] . my-grep) (([...] [...]) lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (let (...) (call-interactively ...))) ([(control 99) (meta 32)] lambda (arg) (interactive "P") (let (t:record-history) (my-toggle-var ...))) ([(control meta up)] lambda nil (interactive) (my-frame-toggle-max (quote height))) ..
 .)
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Re: command-line-args does not work

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com
> Date: 26 Mar 2004 20:23:11 -0800
> 
> command-line-args does not contain the command line args
> passed by shell.  For instance, command-line-args is
> ("emacs") in the instance of emacs invoked as "emacs -u kin".

That's normal behavior: arguments that are processed by Emacs during
its startup are deleted from command-line-args.

The doc string in the development sources already mentions that.