GNU bug report logs - #11474
emacsclient passes --eval arguments (but not the '--eval') to alternate editor

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jason Lewis <jason <at> dickson.st>

Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 05:24:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch, wontfix

Merged with 12154, 18517

Found in versions 24.1, 24.1.50, 24.3.93

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 11474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Scott Turner <srt19170 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#11474: Patch for Emacsclient --eval bug
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:17:20 -0400

> $ emacsclient -a nano --eval '(my-emacs-setup-thing)'
>
> The eval bit is meaningful in Emacs, and may be something that the user
> feels is something that Emacs should do when called from emacsclient.
> But if there's no server, then we should use nano.
>
> The current behaviour is to use nano with the file name
> '(my-emacs-setup-thing)', while you propose to call nano with
> --eval '(my-emacs-setup-thing)', which would be even worse, I think,
> while just dropping the parameters completely in the -a case would make
> this usable.

I think that nowadays with the `-a ""` option the need to keep
the --eval is indeed not very high, so I retract my objection.


        Stefan
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