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bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
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Jim Porter |
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bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me |
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Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:05:52 -0700 |
On 9/19/2022 1:56 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote:
Hmm... I did not see the --apply proposal earlier, it's nice and lispy
indeed.
I think I would prefer to separate the two concerns (stuffing argument
strings into the Lisp environment on the one hand, and forms on the
other hand), but it seems good enough, and perhaps it's the best
compromise.
One disadvantage I see is that it becomes a bit more complex to write
function calls with arguments that are not strings. E.g. to call
(some-func 1 "arg" t)
one would have to do something like
--eval '(defun tmp-func (arg) (some-func 1 arg t))' --apply tmp-func arg
instead of something like
--set args arg -- --eval '(some-func 1 (car args) t)'
If Emacs gained a 'set-arg' function (similar to 'setarg1' in your
message) that does the right thing, you could say:
--apply set-arg args arg -- --eval '(some-func 1 (car args) t)'
Another way would be a function that "intelligently" converts arguments
to other types. This is similar to how Eshell command forms work: if
you're calling a Lisp function with sh-like syntax, it will
automatically convert arguments that look like numbers into actual
numbers. So maybe you could do something like:
--apply autoconvert-strings-and-apply some-func 1 arg t
That seems clumsier to me than 'set-arg', but since these could all be
written as Lisp functions, users or package authors should be able to do
whatever they need. Of course, core Emacs could add whichever helper
function(s) seem generally useful.
One case in which --apply is better is when the function is already
defined by Emacs...
Yeah, for more-complex forms, you'd still need to fall back to --eval or
something similar. But a Lisp function like 'set-arg' could let us reuse
the --apply machinery. I think it could be as simple as this:
(defun set-arg (name &rest value)
(set (intern name) value))
That should give us '--set', except that it's spelled '--apply set-arg'.
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- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me,
Jim Porter <=
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/19
bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/16