GNU bug report logs - #67321
29.1.90; Different parsing rules for -*- lexical-binding:t; -*- in different circumstances

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 64272

Found in versions 28.1, 29.1.90

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Message #28 received at 67321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 67321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67321: 29.1.90; Different parsing rules for -*-
 lexical-binding:t; -*- in different circumstances
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:10:06 +0100

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 2023-11-22 15:59 +0100
>
> Thanks, Sebastian. I got the trick, though it took me a minute. Clever,
> clever :-).

I want to explicitly have mentioned that I did not come up with the
trick by myself.  (And it took me more than a minute to grok it.)

> TBH, I don't see a good reason why that should be used instead of the
> much simpler
>
> cat >somefile <<EOF
> ; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> (message "%s" lexical-binding)
> EOF
> emacs --script somefile

Didn't think of this either.  I'm not a big fan of the temporary file,
but it definitely is fine.
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