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From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: 25670@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:00:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e374c522-3912-913d-347e-6aa0ba2253d9@live.com> (raw)


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Hi bug-gnu-emacs,

Event with --script, Emacs still displays its help when passed --help.  This is confusing for users (they might write emacs --script some-script.el --help expecting to get help on the script, but instead they get Emacs' help), and it force ELisp scripts to use --usage or some other harder-to-guess synonym.

Could this be changed so that emacs --script a.el --help does not show Emacs' help?

More generally, could we guarantee that options that appear *after* "--script" aren't processed by Emacs itself (and instead left to the script)?  Or would that break things?

Thanks!
Clément.


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-09 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-09 21:00 Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2017-02-10  4:40 ` bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode Glenn Morris
2017-02-10 15:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-02-10 16:52   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-10 17:36     ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-10 20:23       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-18  9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-18 13:46   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-02-18 14:18     ` Eli Zaretskii

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