> Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 08:43:13 +0800
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: ns-do-applescript
> Message-ID: <87leumebby.fsf@yahoo.com>
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> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> > I have never heard of "osascript".  What is that?  What systems
> > support it?  Does it exist on GNU/Linux?

> It's only present in macOS.
Right

> > Basically, what are the differences that make it better to use
> > osascript than applescript?

> I think that binary _is_ Apple's proprietary AppleScript interpreter,
Indeed it is

> but using it in a subprocess to retrieve only contacts data (which is
> already possible on free systems) must be more acceptable than Emacs
> including a C primitive to do the same thing.

Not only that. You can do things like raising Emacs to the top and other
system actions that would otherwise require (Objective-)?C functions in the
Emacs executable.

Best, /PA

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