GNU bug report logs - #59743
Implement `command-line-args-left' for emacsclient --eval expressions

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Message #8 received at 59743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>, 59743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59743: Implement `command-line-args-left' for emacsclient
 --eval expressions
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 18:16:25 -0800

On 12/1/2022 7:06 AM, Max Nikulin wrote:
> I propose to expand protocol of communication between emacsclient and 
> server to allow passing of arbitrary arguments for --eval expression
> that are not treated as files. The goal is to pass strings to evaluated 
> expressions in a safe way without necessity of escaping double quotes 
> and backslashes.
> 
> I suggest to add e,g, --args option of emacsclient that transfers 
> everything after it (including arguments starting with dash) to server 
> and causes let-binding the list to command-line-args-left (or another 
> variable) before execution of preceding --eval options.

I believe this is a duplicate of bug#57752, where I and several others 
previously discussed a few options to solve this.

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