From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read a reply from the terminal Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:49:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200707140242.l6E2gpBC015778@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184507393 2172 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2007 13:49:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:49:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 15 15:49:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IA4Tr-0002Gh-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IA4Tr-0001Gb-1j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IA4Tn-0001E9-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IA4Tl-0001BB-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IA4Tk-0001AP-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IA4Tk-0001C3-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IA4TN-0004cQ-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:49:17 +0200 Original-Received: from remote5.student.chalmers.se ([129.16.29.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:49:17 +0200 Original-Received: from bojohan+news by remote5.student.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:49:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote5.student.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LVC1olGFKtoivMAN16vQ10MWcaI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74813 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Dan Nicolaescu >> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:42:51 -0700 >> >> I trying to do: (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c") and read the string >> that the terminal sends back. Can this be done reliably in elisp? > > If you know exactly how many bytes will the response include, I think > insert-file-contents should fit the bill. Doesn't it? How? -- Johan Bockgård