From: Terrence Brannon <metaperl@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: access command line (arguments) from emacs --script
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:39:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6486c70-509e-4912-b16b-b89038d3c35d@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
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'
(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'
I have written my entire program below. I just need to know how to get
command line arguments.
#!/bin/env emacs --script
(open-file "edan.el")
(search-forward "(provide 'edan)")
(move-beginning-of-line)
(open-line 2)
;;; option a
;;; prepend-edan.el `script-to-generate-text`
(insert $ARGV[0])
;;; option b
;;; prepend-edan.el --text `script-to-generate-text`
(insert $ARG['text'])
By the way, I found the manual (
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Command_002dLine-Arguments.html
) to be confusing. Why is the handler function for the command-switch-
alist only passed the name of the option? How does it get the value of
the option?
Why is command-line args a list? How are you supposed to access the
arguments by name if this is just a list of the arguments.
next reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 13:39 UTC|newest]
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2010-07-26 13:39 Terrence Brannon [this message]
2010-07-26 20:11 ` access command line (arguments) from emacs --script David Kastrup
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