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Re: --eval
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David Kastrup |
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Re: --eval |
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:26:00 +0200 |
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Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Uh, -f was a typo. I really meant --eval in my example.
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> BTW, a pity that Emacs doesn't provide a short option for the `--eval'
> command line argument!
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> By analogy with `--funcall' that have the corresponding `-f',
> the short option for `--eval' and `--execute' would be `-e'.
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> Even though startup.el currently treats `-e' as a shorthand of `-funcall',
> it seems that such use of `-e' is obsolete and we are free to reassign it
> to `--eval' and `--execute' because the manual doesn't document it:
Deprecating -e is ok with me, but a potentially dangerous command may
well be spelled explicitly.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum