Package: emacs22
Version: 22.1+1-1
Severity: normal
I prefer to have my emacs windows iconified to a simple string, rather than a
fancy bitmap, and so when I moved to emacs22 (back when it was packaged as
emacs-snapshot), I started to use the --no-bitmap-icon option to accomplish
this. In addition, my .xinitrc launches my emacs session with a few other
arguments that opens some windows and sets their geometry in a particular way
when I'm launching under X:
emacs --no-bitmap-icon --geometry 80x58-0+60 -l .emacs-X &
What I discovered was that the --no-bitmap-icon argument was treated
correctly, but the --geometry argument was ignored, and emacs behaved as if I
had asked it to edit a file named "80x58-0+60".
As a simpler test case, try this:
% emacs22 -q --geometry 30x30
# observe how the window is small, and look at the buffer list, then quit
# emacs.
% emacs22 --no-bitmap-icon -q --geometry 30x30
# observe how the window is default size, and now there is a buffer named
# "30x30" in the buffer list, as if argv were '--no-bitmap-icon -q 30x30'
# instead.
% emacs22 -q --geometry 30x30 --no-bitmap-icon
# behaves the same way, regardless of where --no-bitmap-icon is in argv[]
It seems that the --load argument is somehow affected too:
% echo '(find-file "/etc/hosts")' >foo.el
% emacs22 -q --load foo.el
# observe that there is a 'hosts' buffer as expected
% emacs22 -q --load foo.el --no-bitmap-icon
# instead of finding /etc/hosts, there is a 'foo.el' buffer, as if
# the command 'emacs22 -q --no-bitmap-icon foo.el' were run instead
Other value-taking argument seem to be similarly affected:
% emacs22 -q --foreground-color red
# starts normally, color is red
% emacs22 -q --foreground-color red --no-bitmap-icon
# color is default, but a buffer named 'red' is opened
My current hunch is that the --no-bitmap-icon argument causes any other
value-bearing argument to lose the argument name, leaving just the argument
value, which is then interpreted as a filename to be opened. Something in the
argv processing is getting clobbered.
cheers,
-Brian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages emacs22 depends on:
ii emacs22-bin-common 22.1+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-5 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.6-3 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
emacs22 recommends no packages.
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