From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Scott Turner <srt19170@gmail.com>
Cc: 11474@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11474: Patch for Emacsclient --eval bug
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:34:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvburn15o.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+fxJPSABO2DbLqCR-y5jwegi5G5cwnwQsgCZAF1tGsQ8vDogg@mail.gmail.com> (Scott Turner's message of "Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:34:13 -0400")
>> Silently dropping arguments is not very polite, so I'm not really happy
>> with your solution.
> I think as long as it is documented that the alternate_editor is not passed
> the arguments intended for Emacs, that behavior is not terrible.
The current behavior is not that terrible either. I think a fix should
aim to actually improve the situation.
> On a practical level, I doubt the alternate_editor is going to be prepared
> to deal with Emacs flags, so that's not terribly useful.
But if the user uses --alternate-editor together with --eval, she can
make the alternate editor understand the args by making it a little
script that does what she wants.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-02 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-15 5:27 bug#11474: 24.1.50; eval a command does the wrong thing with emacsclientw.exe Jason Lewis
2013-12-13 15:30 ` bug#11474: Patch for Emacsclient --eval bug Scott Turner
2013-12-24 14:56 ` Scott Turner
2013-12-24 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-24 16:11 ` Scott Turner
2014-04-02 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-02 15:34 ` Scott Turner
2014-04-02 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-06-27 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-27 18:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 18:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-27 19:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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