GNU bug report logs - #57752
28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, git <at> mavit.org.uk, 57752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:12:21 +0200

Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This is actually the trickiest part about this to me. If I were
> designing this, I'd say that '--apply' consumes every positional
> argument up to the next flag.

Sorry, that would just be a very fiddly, often-breaking interface.  If
you say

emacs --apply foo $1 $2

and $2 happens to be "-*hakuna-matata*-", then you'd get a failure.
Morover, there's no way to separate

emacs --apply foo param1 param2

from 

emacs --apply foo param1 file-to-be-opened

So we need "--" to end the parameter list.

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