Re: starting an external command from emacs

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Matt Price wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 07:50 -0800, Xah wrote:
> 
>> if you want to write elisp to call some other script and process the
>> result, it's fairly easy. If you can be specific about what command
>> you want to call and how you want to parse the result, we can help
>> better.
> 
> here's my second question: 
> 
> given a list like this
> '(
> "matt@mdke.org	Matthew East"
> "matt.price@utoronto.ca	Matt Price
> "matthias.doerries@gersulp.u-strasbg.fr	Matthias Dörries"
> "matthewreedy@yahoo.com	matthewreedy"
> )
> 
> how to i tell emacs i want to use the list elements as choices for
> tab-completion in an interactive function?  so if i have a function like
> this:
> 
> 
> (defun query-python-addressbook (name)
;;(interactive "s To:" )
   (interactive (list (completing-read "Name : " ;;or ido-completing-read
				      '("your" "list")
				      nil t)))
>   (setq cmd-name "python /home/matt/evo-query.py")
>   ;; imagine sh-output generates a list -- see my last email in this
> thread
>   (setq sh-output (shell-command-to-string (concat cmd-name " " name)))
> 
>   )
> can I write another couple of lines that presents the items in the list
> as choices to the user, who then picks one?  that'd be really great.  
> 
> that's about as far as i can get so far.  thanks again!
> 
> matt
> 

-ap