jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM.UUCP (08/18/87)
>> Recent article(s) brought up using csh aliases; one person mentioned >> that they use `alias mail emacs -e mail'. Remember that GNU emacs runs on various operating systems, some of which aren't Unix. The place for command-line info like this is the manual page, which is distributed in etc/emacs.1. Looking in the above, we find that the -f switch calls a function. In the source (startup.el, routine comand-line-1), we find that the switches -e, -f and -funcall all do the same thing. There are also interesting functions to help when you need to create the byte-compiled (.elc) libraries and the documentation files before you have a dumped emacs. Check out batch-byte-compile and batch-info-validate. /jr jr@bbn.com or jr@bbnccv.uucp Without life, there wouldn't be chemical companies.