From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] don't treat "emacs -- file" like "emacs --chdir file"
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:02:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zku337f9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762wrlkxa.fsf@meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:33:53 +0200")
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
> The first change fixes the obvious bug, assuming the intent
> was to allow the 4-byte "--ch" as an abbreviation for "--chdir".
Thanks, committed.
> The second one fixes the more general one, allowing "--" to work as it
> does in nearly every other Unix command-line program.
Hmm, without this patch "emacs -- --foo" already seems to work as
expected. Could you explain this patch in more detail?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-24 16:02 UTC|newest]
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2010-10-24 14:33 [PATCH 1/2] don't treat "emacs -- file" like "emacs --chdir file" Jim Meyering
2010-10-24 16:02 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-10-24 16:29 ` Jim Meyering
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