bug#72089: [PATCH] Option to control Emacs' behaviour when invoked with file args.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> Cc: funk443@yahoo.com.tw,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  acorallo@gnu.org,
>   72089@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:30:33 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't really see a big difference, since we have --eval.
> 
> Passing elisp to commands in a shell script is pain

Not when all you need to do is a single setq.

> and command line flags are visible in --help.

So is --eval.

Adding a new command-line option also has downsides: it's another
thing to learn and remember.  "emacs --help" already shows more than
60 different options, and I personally sometimes have hard time
finding the option whose exact name I happened to forget in this very
long list.  So adding one more option doesn't come for free.