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Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: 25670 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:00:59 -0500

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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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