Passing arguments to elisp script. Again

Question

How can I pass arguments -q -d -Q -t -L -fg -bg --color etc?

Doing something like emacs --script -Q definetely wil

Answer 1

If you run emacs in script mode, I would recommend to reset "argv" variable to nil in the end of your script, otherwise emacs will try interpret "argv" after script is finished.

Let's assuming you have a file named "test-emacs-script.el" with the following content:

#!/usr/bin/emacs --script
(print argv)
(setq argv nil)

Try running this script as "./test-emacs-script.el -a". If you run this script without resettings "argv" (last line in the script) then the output will be:

("-a")
Unknown option `-a'

Resetting "argv" gets rid of "unknown option" error message