Re: Interesting handling of command line arguments
Oliver Fischer notes:
> But this does xemacs already....
I just checked, and you're right. Was fuer ein Pain-in-the-ass! :)
Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu writes:
Just because it already implements counterintuitive behavior is no
reason to keep doing so.
My sentiments exactly. Principle of least astonishment.
should 'xemacs --hepl' invoke usage() or should it open the
file as
specified?)
It should definitely show the command line usage help. If you want to
have a file with dashes at the beginning of the name, you should do the
standard GNU getopt thing: indicate you're done giving options with
"--":
$ xemacs -no-init-file -nw -- --snoot
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