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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-10-29 14:19:39 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-10-29 14:19:39 +0200
commitcb86120272042df9420a726b3a754d58f300f350 (patch)
treee24fa2550c2106f8a5b193031dc58a155ee6808a /etc/NEWS
parent683efb8de5ac3a2ba5ecc073d8c912ec6a61191d (diff)
downloademacs-cb86120272042df9420a726b3a754d58f300f350.tar.gz
; Fix documentation of last change
* etc/NEWS: * doc/emacs/misc.texi (emacsclient Options): Fix wording. (Bug#65902)
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@@ -236,12 +236,13 @@ displayed on the mode line when 'appt-display-mode-line' is non-nil.
** Emacs Server and Client
---
-*** 'server-eval-args-left' can be used to pop subsequent eval args
+*** 'server-eval-args-left' can be used to pop and eval subsequent args.
When '--eval' is passed to emacsclient and Emacs is evaluating each
-argument, this variable is set to those which have not yet been
-evaluated. It can be used to 'pop' arguments to prevent them from
-being evaluated, which is useful when those arguments contain
-arbitrary data.
+argument, this variable is set to those arguments not yet evaluated.
+It can be used to 'pop' arguments and process them by the function
+called in the '--eval' expression, which is useful when those
+arguments contain arbitrary characters that otherwise might require
+elaborate and error-prone escaping (to protect them from the shell).
* Editing Changes in Emacs 30.1