Re: Interesting handling of command line arguments

|--==> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SJT> Why should XEmacs quit? SY> Consistency. A large proportion of the software that I use SY> (all open source, predominately GNU) seem to do things this SY> way. SJT> There's only one that's anything like XEmacs. And you don't use that, SJT> do you? ;-) ,----[ C-u M-! which emacs RET ] | which: no emacs in ( path elided ) `---- :-) SJT> Seriously, quitting and displaying help is a reasonable fallback, but SJT> we should be able to do better. Yes. SY> Yes it is[1]. So '--help' wouldn't be appropriate here. But SY> a very terse "Illegal option: '-something'; if '-something' is SY> a filename please use '--file=-something'" would be enough. SJT> This implies executing XEmacs three times to accomplish the task if SJT> they aren't interested in editing a file with name beginning with "-", SJT> but really forgot what option they want. Good point. I think you suggested somewhere else in this thread of displaying something in a warnings buffer, that sounds like the best option. You've convinced this lil XEmacs hacker. :-) -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|