From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:55:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6q99pnd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.00000000606EB36D.00004722@stw1.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:40:17 +0300)
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:40:17 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
>
> There is function `shell-command-to-string' which is very handy. But
> when there are problems with quoting
Problems that shell-quote-argument doesn't solve? If so, can you show
those problems?
> it is better to use
> `call-process'. Yet there is no function `call-process-to-string',
> which I have made as below.
Why do you need such a command? Emacs can copy text between buffers,
so you don't need to cons a string to insert it into another buffer.
In general, one should avoid strings in Emacs Lisp, because buffer
memory is handled much more efficiently than string memory.
> Is there maybe some other function that can give me string from
> buffer?
buffer-substring?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-08 7:40 Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string? Jean Louis
2021-04-08 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-04-08 11:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 15:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 18:17 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 18:44 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 17:18 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 18:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 19:41 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-09 8:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-09 10:07 ` tomas
2021-04-08 13:08 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-08 15:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 18:33 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 18:40 ` Jean Louis
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