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29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping

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Message #58 received at 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65902: 29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to
 complicated escaping
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:33:01 -0700

On 9/13/2023 12:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> And I don't understand why we need to add any options to Emacs itself,
> btw.  The suggestion to have some "symmetry" here was one of the
> reasons that discussion got nowhere.  So let's learn from that
> mistake, at least.

There's a practical benefit to this. If you have $EDITOR set in your 
environment to something like "emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs", 
then it would be nice if you could say this:

  $EDITOR --apply some-func arg1 arg2

and have it do the same thing whether or not there was already an Emacs 
server running. The symmetry between the two commands (plus proper 
argument forwarding) would make that work.

However, if people can't agree, then we could probably drop that part. 
To me, it sounds like people *do* agree that this would be good to have 
though.

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