GNU bug report logs - #63108
28.2; emacsclient does not recognise eval argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vangelis Evangelou <evangelou <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:49:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.2

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From: Vangelis Evangelou <evangelou <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.2; emacsclient does not recognise eval argument
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:48:40 +0100

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In the terminal, I type the command
emacsclient -s test -a emacs --eval "(message \"hello\")"
Emacs visits a file called (message "hello"), so in fact it interprets the
last input as the name to a file instead of evaluating the lisp expression.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Vangelis Evangelou <evangelou <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 63108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63108: 28.2; emacsclient does not recognise eval argument
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:42:25 +0300

> From: Vangelis Evangelou <evangelou <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:48:40 +0100
> 
> In the terminal, I type the command
> emacsclient -s test -a emacs --eval "(message \"hello\")"
> Emacs visits a file called (message "hello"), so in fact it interprets the last input as the name to a file
> instead of evaluating the lisp expression.

I think what you expect to happen is currently not supported.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:33:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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