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Feature request: emacs -Q --script as a single binary

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25671: Feature request: emacs -Q --script as a single binary
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:17:00 -0500

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On 2017-02-10 02:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:14:41 -0500
>>
>> Could we set up emacs to assume --script and possibly -Q when started as "elisp", or "emacs-script", or some other name (that is, could we make it so that invoking emacs with argv[0] = ".../elisp" starts emacs -Q --script)? (And ideally Emacs would ignore all options after the script's name, to let the script itself process them).
> 
> I believe changing the program behavior depending on how it was named
> in the command that invoked it is against GNU coding standards.

What about providing elisp or emacs-script as a separate binary?

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