Re: is it possible to pass shell variables to emacs?

[David Kastrup]

"stuart.tett@gmail.com" <stuart.tett@gmail.com> writes:

> is there any possible way to do this? I would like to avoid making
> them environment variables. I have a command-line script that when
> called, sets all of these variables. I would like to use these
> variables for example when finding a file.
>
> Maybe there's some custom code I could put in my .emacs file. or I
> could write a wrapper around emacs.

emacs -eval '(setq a (pop argv) b (pop argv))' "$a" "$b"

If your Emacs version is not a more recent developer version, you need
to write command-line-args-left instead of argv.  This is to be
preferred to

emacs -eval "(setq a \"$a\" b \"$b\")"

since this will break if $a or $b contain characters or character
sequences that are interpreted specially in literal Lisp strings.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum