bug#4399: simple way to identify top-level --script file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> I was hoping for something like the python idiom:
>
>     if __name__ == "__main__":
>
> ... this lets a file determine if it was invoked "as the main program".
>
> My specific use was for tests: I want "emacs --script test.el" to run
> the tests, but I want to be able to load the file just to get the defuns
> without running the test suite.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

In my opinion, I think it would be too niche to add a special mechanism
for this.  You can use --eval '(setq something-to-react-to t)' --script
... if you want to have different things happening in this case.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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