Kyle> Hrvoje Niksic writes: Kyle> I think this misses the point of batch mode. From time Kyle> immemorial 'batch' has implied 'non-interactive'. So there Kyle> should be no interactivity, and therefore no prompts. I think this is an arbitrary restriction. Perhaps -stream would be a better name for a option that allows a program to generally avoid contact with the icky user, but still be able to if necessary. Like `perl', for example. So I agree with Hrvoje. Emacs is a Lisp interpreter first, an editor second. Martin

Hrvoje> `xemacs -batch -l dunnet' :-) Hrvoje> displays ugly newlines after all the prompts. Ugly, ugly, Hrvoje> ugly. Cf. with FSFmacs, which handles it correctly. `gnuclient -batch -l dunnet' (and a couple of variations involving `-nw' and `-f dunnet') doesn't work as I'd like it to. Shouldn't it? Non-interactive scripts maybe we don't care so much about startup time, but for interactive ones it's pretty painful. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."