|
From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me |
Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:48:02 -0700 |
On 9/19/2022 1:12 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:This is actually the trickiest part about this to me. If I were designing this, I'd say that '--apply' consumes every positional argument up to the next flag.Sorry, that would just be a very fiddly, often-breaking interface. If you say emacs --apply foo $1 $2 and $2 happens to be "-*hakuna-matata*-", then you'd get a failure.
In my suggestion, this would be spelled emacs --apply foo -- $1 $2 However...
Morover, there's no way to separate emacs --apply foo param1 param2 from emacs --apply foo param1 file-to-be-opened So we need "--" to end the parameter list.
This would indeed be impossible in my suggestion (at least not without having 'foo' call 'find-file'). Just to make sure I understand your suggestion: '--apply' would consume *every* argument after it until it sees a '--'? So to apply 2 functions, you'd say:
emacs --apply func1 arg1 arg2 -- --apply func2 arg3 arg4That seems like it would probably be ok, so long as no one wanted to pass a literal '--' to the function. I don't think there's much of a security risk either, since the worst that would happen is someone sending "-- foobar", causing "foobar" to get opened as a file.
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |