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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

>> Many arguments are deleted from `command-line-args' as they are
>> processed.  How about checking the `noninteractive' variable ?
>
> probably being a horrible pest here but how would I make emacs cough
> up the contents of `noninteractive'
>
> something like:
> emacs -batch -eval '(noninteractive)' but the syntax is all dorked up.

I don't think it makes sense to heed `noninteractive' in a form that
is passed to emacs -batch -eval because that would be redundant.

[Nevertheless, emacs -batch -eval 'noninteractive' is syntactically
correct at least, and to "make it do something" you could say emacs
-batch -eval '(print noninteractive)' or emacs -batch -eval '(if
noninteractive (print "foo"))'.]

It makes more sense to heed `noninteractive' in your .gnus file.

Also, wrt this invocation mentioned in your first post:

emacs -q -no-site-file -batch -l ~/.my_gnus.el -f gnus-agent-batch

Maybe it helps to frob the variable `gnus-init-file' to avoid loading
~/.gnus ?  For example, you could put (setq gnus-init-file
(expand-file-name "~/.my_gnus.el")) at the start of ~/.my_gnus.el
(untested).