GNU bug report logs - #18105
term, ansi-term: allow to pass arguments to command

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:21:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: term, ansi-term: allow to pass arguments to command
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:19:34 -0300

It's a somewhat surprising limitation that M-x term doesn't take
further (optional) command line parameters to pass to `PROGRAM`. The
underlying workhorse functions do take a `switches` parameters, so
this is more of a frontend matter than a real limitation in term.el.
Please change the interactive functions `term` and `ansi-term` to take
further arguments to be passed to exec. This would be a simple change,
backwards compatible and more Unix-friendly (I can't think of a
command apart from its arguments).
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bug#18105; Package emacs. (Wed, 11 May 2022 15:11:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18105: term, ansi-term: allow to pass arguments to command
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:10:47 +0200

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It's a somewhat surprising limitation that M-x term doesn't take
> further (optional) command line parameters to pass to `PROGRAM`. The
> underlying workhorse functions do take a `switches` parameters, so
> this is more of a frontend matter than a real limitation in term.el.
> Please change the interactive functions `term` and `ansi-term` to take
> further arguments to be passed to exec. This would be a simple change,
> backwards compatible and more Unix-friendly (I can't think of a
> command apart from its arguments).

I've now done this in Emacs 29.

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bug marked as fixed in version 29.1, send any further explanations to 18105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 11 May 2022 15:11:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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