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Re: --eval
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David Kastrup |
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Re: --eval |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:26:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Uh, -f was a typo. I really meant --eval in my example.
>
> BTW, a pity that Emacs doesn't provide a short option for the `--eval'
> command line argument!
>
> By analogy with `--funcall' that have the corresponding `-f',
> the short option for `--eval' and `--execute' would be `-e'.
>
> 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 it seems that such use of `-e' is obsolete and we are free to reassign it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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