Emacs Schell Scripting

[Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yazici@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have written a small wrapper shell script over htmlize.el to output
syntax highlighted forms of buffers into HTML files. (Why bothering
with syntax highligting libraries while there is emacs already?) But
I'm having some troubles with command line arguments in emacs shell
scripts. Consider below output:

  $ cat example.el
  #!/usr/local/bin/emacs --script
  (message "ARGV: %s\n" command-line-args)

  $ ./example.el foo bar baz
  ARGV: (/usr/local/bin/emacs -scriptload ./example.el foo bar baz)

In the initialization of my program, I create a custom args variable:

  (defvar args (cons (first command-line-args) (subseq command-line-
args 3)))

But isn't there a more portable and concise way of doing this? (OTOH,
I don't know if "-scriptload ./example.el" part differs between
different emacs versions.)


Regards.