From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs configuration Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:11:51 +0200 Message-ID: <877dexk920.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87r1d6jbu0.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22732"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SGesIwsQm8G8j36Tf3xA3iR26cU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 00:13:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1mW4J5-0005js-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:13:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW4J3-0001KO-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW4Hb-0001IK-FI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW4HZ-0003M1-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mW4HY-0003pv-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:12:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133460 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Not related to discussion, rather to "preprocessor", on my > side I am working with the database. And the database could > practically include certain Emacs Lisp expressions. > Those could evolve from multiple users. That is where > preprocessor could be useful on my side as to include such > customized snippets or modified functions for each user > being different. That is currently handled on my side by > using `eval'. Other possible use for preprocessor is to > dynamically include some date, signature, link snippets in > the script. But can't you do that with different functions and/or different arguments to the functions? What's the one thing that makes the preprocessor indispensible? I.e. why isn't the "processor" enough? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal