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* Emacs variable holding emacs executable
@ 2013-07-29  8:59 João Távora
  2013-07-29 10:00 ` N. Raghavendra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: João Távora @ 2013-07-29  8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi all,

Is there a elisp variable that holds the actual executable called to
launch emacs? Something akin to argv[0] I guess.

I've tried all the "emacs-*" and also some M-x apropos "emacs" but
didn't find it.

Thanks!
J







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* Re: Emacs variable holding emacs executable
  2013-07-29  8:59 Emacs variable holding emacs executable João Távora
@ 2013-07-29 10:00 ` N. Raghavendra
  2013-07-29 10:17   ` João Távora
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: N. Raghavendra @ 2013-07-29 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

At 2013-07-29T09:59:20+01:00, João Távora wrote:

> Is there a elisp variable that holds the actual executable called to
> launch emacs? Something akin to argv[0] I guess.

(car command-line-args)

could be what you're after.

> I've tried all the "emacs-*" and also some M-x apropos "emacs" but
> didn't find it.

M-x apropos "command-line"

Best regards,
Raghu.

-- 
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/




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* Re: Emacs variable holding emacs executable
  2013-07-29 10:00 ` N. Raghavendra
@ 2013-07-29 10:17   ` João Távora
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: João Távora @ 2013-07-29 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: N. Raghavendra; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

"N. Raghavendra" <raghu@hri.res.in> writes:
>> launch emacs? Something akin to argv[0] I guess.
>
> (car command-line-args)
>
> could be what you're after.

Oh, nice! Thanks!

João



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