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

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Message #28 received at 25670 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25670 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25670: Feature request: ignore --help in --script mode
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 08:46:07 -0500

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On 2017-02-18 04:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> IOW, it is not clear to me what are the expectations in this use case.
> Please take a look at how the command-line arguments are processed at
> startup, in emacs.c and in startup.el, and make a more detailed
> proposal.  Then we could see if it's easy to implement without
> potentially breaking anything.

Ted's pointer to Emacs' support for "--" solved this problem for me: when I pass "--" before "--help", Emacs doesn't process "--".  So I don't --script to be special-cased any more :)

Clément.

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