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28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>, Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>, 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: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:14:33 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

>     Lars> I've idly wondered before whether we should add a general
>     Lars> mechanism for
>     Lars> this to avoid having to create functions that look at
>     Lars> `command-line-args-left' themselves.  (And --eval is problematic in
>     Lars> circumstances like this.)
>
> emacsclient interprets
>
>     emacsclient arg1 arg2 --eval (form1) (form2) (form3)
>
> as "send (form1), then (form2) then (form3), so by analogy this:
>
>     Lars> --function foo --function-args bar zot gazonk
>
> doesnʼt require a --function-args parameter

I was thinking first and foremost about on the Emacs side, not on the
emacsside client.  But if then Emacs had --function-args, then by
analogy, emacsclient should also have it.

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