From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: other "concurrency" approaches Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:23:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83vb9juhdm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1B30AC54-4A83-4437-8BA8-B80F4ED6AF1A@raeburn.org> <878u6f2tf6.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnbbw0iy.fsf@gnu.org> <87611j2ecl.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446571420 4731 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2015 17:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 18:23:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtfIp-0002Rw-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:23:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtfIp-0006yo-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtfIZ-0006w8-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtfIW-00066l-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZtfIV-00066b-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NX900F001BJGH00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:23:02 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NX900FZR1MDER30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:23:02 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87611j2ecl.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193163 Archived-At: > From: Nic Ferrier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:16:10 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> What you want is the ability to do something like this: > >> > >> > >> (let ((proc (start-process "emacs" args-to-make-it-headless))) > >> (process-send-string proc (prin1-to-string '(+ 1 (* 30 45)))) > >> (process-send-eof proc) > >> (print (buffer-string (process-buffer proc)))) > >> > >> in other words, an Emacs that just reads forms from stdin and executes > >> them and outputs to stdout. > > > > This sounds like a description of -batch, but you already know about > > it, so I'm quite sure I'm missing something important here. > > -batch has a peculiar environment, it does not read the user's > environment. You mean, the init files? But you can load them via -l, no?