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

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>, Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 57752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, git <at> mavit.org.uk, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:42:37 +0000

>> And why is the above easier / better than
>> 
>> emacsclient --eval '(progn (fun1 arg1 arg2) (fun2 arg3))'
>
> Because, with this, you have to correctly format the arguments with 
> appropriate quoting into a lisp program, rather than just passing them 
> straight in.  If the arguments are input from something else, this is 
> harder than it appears.  Bad quoting is a common source of bugs (things 
> like SQL injection, for example).
>

If that's the intended use case, IMO instead of adding two --function and 
--function-arg arguments it would be much clearer to add a --setq 
parameter:

emacsclient --setq arg1 ... --setq arg2 ... --setq arg3 ... --eval '(progn (fun1 arg1 arg2) (fun2 arg3))'

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