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28.3; error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’")

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From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.3; error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’")
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 09:43:40 +0200

Something is strange with option parsing:

$ emacs -Q -batch -batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
hello, world
$ emacs -Q --batch --batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
hello, world
$ emacs -Q -batch --batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unknown option ‘--batch’")
  signal(error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’"))
  error("Unknown option `%s'" "--batch")
  command-line-1(("--batch" "-Q" "--eval" "(message \"hello, world\")"))
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

$ emacs -Q --batch -batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unknown option ‘-batch’")
  signal(error ("Unknown option ‘-batch’"))
  error("Unknown option `%s'" "-batch")
  command-line-1(("-batch" "-Q" "--eval" "(message \"hello, world\")"))
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()


I would expect -batch/--batch to be idempotent in all four combinations
above. (I noticed the problem with a Gentoo package, where we add -batch
to Emacs options, and upstream's Makefile adds another --batch.)


In GNU Emacs 28.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.8)
 of 2023-05-14 built on localhost
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101008
System Description: Gentoo Linux

Configured using:
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Message #8 received at 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63733: 28.3;
 error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’")
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 12:10:21 +0300

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 09:43:40 +0200
> 
> Something is strange with option parsing:
> 
> $ emacs -Q -batch -batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
> hello, world
> $ emacs -Q --batch --batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
> hello, world
> $ emacs -Q -batch --batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unknown option ‘--batch’")
>   signal(error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’"))
>   error("Unknown option `%s'" "--batch")
>   command-line-1(("--batch" "-Q" "--eval" "(message \"hello, world\")"))
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()
> 
> $ emacs -Q --batch -batch --eval '(message "hello, world")'
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unknown option ‘-batch’")
>   signal(error ("Unknown option ‘-batch’"))
>   error("Unknown option `%s'" "-batch")
>   command-line-1(("-batch" "-Q" "--eval" "(message \"hello, world\")"))
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()
> 
> 
> I would expect -batch/--batch to be idempotent in all four combinations
> above.

They are not idempotent.  Emacs doesn't use getopt, it uses its own
custom code for parsing the command-line options, because our
situation is complex: we only process part of the command-line options
in C, the rest are processed in Lisp.

What happens here is that, when you use identical "-batch" or
"--batch" options several times, the code in sort_args removes the
identical copies, and we are left with a single option to process.
But if you use both "-batch" and "--batch", the extra option is not
removed, and they both appear in the sorted argv[].  Then one of them
is processed by 'main', the other is left for command-line-1, which
doesn't know what to do with it.

I'm not sure we want to support this use case.  It certainly doesn't
make sense to complicate our command-line parsing for its sake.
Perhaps if a simple and safe solution can be found for removing such
"duplicates" in sort_args, we could install such a change, but
definitely not on the emacs-29 release branch.

Thanks.

Message #11 received at 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63733: 28.3; error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’")
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 11:33:33 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I would expect -batch/--batch to be idempotent in all four combinations
>> above.

> They are not idempotent.

I figured that. IMHO they should be, because it is surprising when
"-batch -batch" works but "-batch --batch" doesn't.

> Emacs doesn't use getopt, it uses its own custom code for parsing the
> command-line options, because our situation is complex: we only
> process part of the command-line options in C, the rest are processed
> in Lisp.

> What happens here is that, when you use identical "-batch" or
> "--batch" options several times, the code in sort_args removes the
> identical copies, and we are left with a single option to process.
> But if you use both "-batch" and "--batch", the extra option is not
> removed, and they both appear in the sorted argv[].  Then one of them
> is processed by 'main', the other is left for command-line-1, which
> doesn't know what to do with it.

"emacs -quick --quick" or even "emacs -Q -quick --quick" works as
expected, though.

Message #14 received at 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63733: 28.3; error ("Unknown option ‘--batch’")
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 13:33:00 +0300

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Cc: 63733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 11:33:33 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What happens here is that, when you use identical "-batch" or
> > "--batch" options several times, the code in sort_args removes the
> > identical copies, and we are left with a single option to process.
> > But if you use both "-batch" and "--batch", the extra option is not
> > removed, and they both appear in the sorted argv[].  Then one of them
> > is processed by 'main', the other is left for command-line-1, which
> > doesn't know what to do with it.
> 
> "emacs -quick --quick" or even "emacs -Q -quick --quick" works as
> expected, though.

Because startup.el knows about it.

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