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From: | Emanuel Berg |
Subject: | history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?) |
Date: | Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:04:36 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
> (dolist (f argv) > (find-file f) > (insert "Sail Ho!") ; do your thing here > (save-buffer) ) BTW I always thought, without thinking about it, that "argv" is a convention in and from the C programming language! But Lisp is older than C (1958 to 1972; Elisp in particular tho a 1985 youngster) so perhaps it is the other way around? Or argv may trace its origin to yet some other language or piece of technology! What do you say? PS. Here, technically it is an alias for `command-line-args-left' which is a variable in startup.el. Ain't it cool stuff? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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