🚀 go-pugleaf

(I tried sending this last week, but the address
bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu wasn't working (!))

GNU Emacs 18.53.11 on NeXT 1.0.1

It is sometimes nice to pass some info into Emacs using the command
line -- e.g. a flag or a string or numeric parameter.  The standard
way to do this is to write your own command line interpreter and put
it in .emacs.  The problem with this is that if you want to distribute
a package which calls emacs (e.g. jgm's NeXT front end), then it will
only work with specific .emacs mods.  (In fact, the particular
application I'm thinking of is having jgm's front end let Emacs know
that it was auto-started at login....)

The standard command line interpreter allows calling a 0-arg function.
Why not allow also setting a variable?  e.g. `emacs -set loserflag 3'.
Alternatively, the standard command line interpreter could leave
unknown command line args alone, instead of interpreting them as
filenames (`emacs -foobar' loads file `-foobar'...).  That way if a
non-standard command line interpreter is present, it can interpret
them.  If not, it can ignore them.

	-s