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bug#67321: 29.1.90; Different parsing rules for -*- lexical-binding:t; -
From: |
Gerd Möllmann |
Subject: |
bug#67321: 29.1.90; Different parsing rules for -*- lexical-binding:t; -*- in different circumstances |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:59:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name> writes:
>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 2023-11-21 11:46 +0100
>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> : ; exec emacs --script "$0" -- "$@" #; -*- lexical-binding: t; mode:
>>> emacs-lisp; -*-
>>>
>>> (defmacro lexical-binding-p ()
>>> '(let* ((x t)
>>> (f (lambda () x))
>>> (x nil))
>>> (funcall f)))
>>>
>>> (message "%s %s" lexical-binding (lexical-binding-p))
>>
>> Can I ask why that idiom is used?
>
> The idiom allows arbitrary shell processing before, and possibly even
> after, actually running Emacs in the script.
>
> See https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/bin/doom for an
> example including both pre- and postprocessing, and lots of comments
> about what is done there, and why.
>
> Another case that recently popped up on emacs-devel is that it allows to
> insert the "--" for cleanly separating the script commandline options
> from options that Emacs may interpret, see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00896.html.
>
> I do not know anymore why I considered the trick in the past. I do not
> want to spend the time to look into my scripts to find that bits that
> would become cumbersome without such tricks. Because of the problem
> with lexical-binding not being picked up, and because I, for now, have
> the luxury of only using Linux, I can use another trick. But being able
> to mangle the command line of Emacs before running Emacs definitely is a
> useful thing. The portable alternative would be to have one separate
> (shell) wrapper around every Emacs script that needs such mangling.
Thanks, Sebastian. I got the trick, though it took me a minute. Clever,
clever :-).
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
So, I personally would not like to spend the time to change Emacs,
sorry.
bug#67321: 29.1.90; Different parsing rules for -*- lexical-binding:t; -*- in different circumstances, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/11/21