From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:56:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4E310800.2060608@easy-emacs.de> References: <87tya8yyhc.fsf@mithlond.arda> <4E304ABA.7040003@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311836182 7064 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 06:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: C K Kashyap Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 08:56:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmKW0-0004pB-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:56:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmKVz-00021h-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmKVv-00021R-Ck for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmKVu-0003gB-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:58068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmKVt-0003g6-VY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4d0c37a2.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.55.162]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lm6KH-1RLOLe1MTh-00a1Zv; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:56:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:3ldKczWQFPw7aFX5WbI0Mnk2W+PsA9RITYED7/Tf5rU cKoTdzRHO9WVazJFkMc7xJJR91Vdv2VgUUzJ3qM0mzmgjbaAnA 0HoVMH2QHev668suI89LUlmkr5vddkA6WP7hfp50bZR2YJwa2w gs2VxAYOTozmCMXgpYLEhOHUGWN6TbAFw7QciH8rcUQ7dSgDab L2r2rND04eNHnvbILMVfGANEnq3ccN50gn+kCgNn70= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.126.187 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81833 Archived-At: Am 28.07.2011 04:40, schrieb C K Kashyap: >> >> >> yes maybe, if the tasks repeat and are basically simple. Than you could use >> some python or perl too. >> >> no, if it's seldom or tricky. >> >> sed, awk etc. don't have such a thing like edebug for example. >> >> Andreas >> >> > Hey Andreas, > You are saying that if the task is not simple then lisp would be a better > way to go right? > That way. These questions are pretty general. Finally every task deserves it's own choice and consideration. Many tools are able doing the same or similar things. Right decision will depend on your experience, knowledge, further prospects etc. I'm using all mentioned so far. If you may select some output with fields, awk always is nice to use for example. Well, awk from an shell inside Emacs, sure, which helps editing a lot. > Hey Teemu ... Are you suggesting common lisp because emacs lisp would fall > short in some situations? > > Regards, > Kashyap >