From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:04:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sh1s33xn.fsf_-_@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8636ts4jz3.fsf@zoho.com
> (dolist (f argv)
> (find-file f)
> (insert "Sail Ho!") ; do your thing here
> (save-buffer) )
BTW I always thought, without thinking about
it, that "argv" is a convention in and from the
C programming language!
But Lisp is older than C (1958 to 1972; Elisp
in particular tho a 1985 youngster) so perhaps
it is the other way around?
Or argv may trace its origin to yet some other
language or piece of technology!
What do you say?
PS. Here, technically it is an alias for
`command-line-args-left' which is
a variable in startup.el. Ain't it
cool stuff?
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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2018-09-29 11:32 ` How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files? Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 12:04 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-09-29 12:44 ` history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?) Skip Montanaro
2018-09-29 23:20 ` John Yates
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2018-09-30 18:20 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-09-29 15:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 18:07 ` Barry Margolin
2018-09-29 21:20 ` James K. Lowden
2018-09-30 19:47 ` How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files? Gerald Wildgruber
[not found] ` <mailman.1577.1538336869.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-30 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-01 5:48 ` Gerald Wildgruber
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2018-10-01 9:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-01 14:37 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-01 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
2018-10-02 12:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-02 15:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-03 10:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-03 23:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 5:42 ` Gerald Wildgruber
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2018-10-03 14:12 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-10-02 15:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-10-01 15:12 ` Emanuel Berg
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