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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>

Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 59743

Found in version 28.1.91

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>, Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>, 57752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, git <at> mavit.org.uk, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:58:34 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:04:25 +0000, Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> said:

    Gregory> Okay, now I see what you mean, you want to be able to pass an array of
    Gregory> strings/arguments to Elisp.  Then I think that the cleanest/most
    Gregory> flexible way to do that would be

    Gregory> --setq VAR VAL ... --

    Gregory> (note the final double hyphen) defined as having the effect of (setq
    Gregory> VAR (list "VAL" ...)).  That would allow zero, one or more arguments.

That sounds good, although it should not be called '--setq', to avoid
people opening bugs saying "I did --setq indent-tabs-mode nil -- and
itʼs still 't'". --let or --bind or ....?

Robert
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