From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: access command line (arguments) from emacs --script Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:11:54 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87tynmj94l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291857583 2623 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:19:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 02:19:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQVAZ-00012e-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:19:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQVAY-0006Ku-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:19:38 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FYCPldEJv4mlWv3Eu8agljpjJ28= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2010 22:11:55 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 032a1023.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=eUb8UNKlgC`016@cHD@m; jA9EHlD; 3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRa8kFWOBh1_LiI6ENVam3>5MOK`al0oRjnKWk\ocQ9@hNTLMOZCl^Un Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180083 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76371 Archived-At: Terrence Brannon writes: > Hello, I am interested in accessing the arguments passed to an emacs > script. > > I am interested in either: > (a) accessing what would be $1 to a shell program, in other words > > ./emacs-script.el 'here is dollar one... how does emacs get it' (pop argv) > (b) accessing an argument specified as an argument either in long or > short format: > > ./emacs-script.el --argument 'here is the argument .. how to get with > emacs' The interpretation is up to you. Argument processing is positioned after emacs-script.el. If argv is not yet available in your version of Emacs, you might have to use command-line-args-left instead. -- David Kastrup