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To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>,
	thursday <thursday@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: OT: emacs command line switch
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Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes:

> You can also specify Lisp functions to run directly from the commandline.
> 
> emacs file.txt -f end-of-buffer
> 
> seems to work fine.

I couldn't get "-f end-of-buffer" to work when I developed my
monstrosity.  Turns out that one must place it after the filename.
Weird.  I knew GNU software allowed non-POSIX option placement, but I
didn't know it sometimes depended on it.

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