From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: 25670-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:52:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e731e53-dc69-f68e-aa52-82ba89c9c518@live.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmuakrwv.fsf@flea>
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On 2017-02-10 10:05, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:00:59 -0500 Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com> wrote:
>
> CP> More generally, could we guarantee that options that appear *after* "--script" aren't processed by Emacs itself (and instead left to the script)? Or would that break things?
>
> Typically I've seen "--" used to indicate the end of parseable options.
> Would it help?
Yes! And in fact it seems to work :) Neat.
$ emacs -Q --batch --eval '(print argv)' -- --help
("--" "--help")
I see now that it was mentioned in http://www.lunaryorn.com/posts/emacs-script-pitfalls.html. Not sure how I missed it.
Thanks Ted!
Clément.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-09 21:00 bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-10 4:40 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-10 15:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-10 16:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2017-02-10 17:36 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-10 20:23 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-18 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-18 13:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-18 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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