From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ns-do-applescript Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 10:07:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5838"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SFiu3/NiUPdALL7wDVSEC9ydmBg= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 16:12:24 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuEDw-0001PM-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 16:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39362 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuEDu-0007S8-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 10:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuEBm-0006Wm-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 10:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuEBk-0007u6-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 10:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuEBe-0008pL-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 16:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:290271 Archived-At: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez writes: >> Can we re-implement `ns-do-applescript` as an ELisp function that runs >> `osascript`? > > you mean something like: > ;; (ns-do-applescript "tell application \"Emacs\" to activate")) > (call-process "osascript" nil nil nil "-e" "tell application \"Emacs\" to activate") > > Isn't it easier to explain than to actually write a function? ;-) And the return value that ns-do-applescript handles? -- Howard