bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> This is actually the trickiest part about this to me. If I were
> designing this, I'd say that '--apply' consumes every positional
> argument up to the next flag.

Sorry, that would just be a very fiddly, often-breaking interface.  If
you say

emacs --apply foo $1 $2

and $2 happens to be "-*hakuna-matata*-", then you'd get a failure.
Morover, there's no way to separate

emacs --apply foo param1 param2

from 

emacs --apply foo param1 file-to-be-opened

So we need "--" to end the parameter list.