Re: Emacs script options

[Eli Zaretskii]

> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
> Comments: In-reply-to Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>    message dated "Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:36:36 +0200."
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:29:25 -0800
> 
> there was an interesting discussion on how to use a two-line shell
> script as a spring board into Emacs.  but, possibly not everyone
> followed the discussion that far.
> 
> but, i would jump back to my suggestion for "-x".  i think it would be a
> real benefit to those wanting to write general purpose scripts using
> Emacs as the "engine" (or whatever you want to call it).

My understanding of this is that one can easily avoid the annoyance of
having to use "--" by at least two different techniques.

As mentioned in

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-11/msg00864.html

the proposed feature will change the Emacs behavior in incompatible
ways, so there's also a significant disadvantage to this proposal.

So on balance, I think that we should not add this feature.