Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

[Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

>> I already use 'emacs -batch' for scripting where no user input is
>> used, but I would like to use it also for interactive scripting. Until
>> now I did not find any usable information about this. Anybody using
>> Emacs for interactive scripts?
>
> I suggest using some Common Lisp implementation instead. They are more
> general-purpose Lisp dialects I like CLISP.
>
>     #!/usr/bin/clisp
>     (format *query-io* "Type something: ")
>     (format t "You wrote: ~A" (read-line *query-io*))

I'll try that. I already understood that elisp is 'old' and that clisp
has a lot more possibilities. One thing. Using your script gives:
    ./dummy.lisp: line 3: format: command not found
    ./dummy.lisp: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
    ./dummy.lisp: line 4: `(format t "You wrote: ~A" (read-line *query-io*))'
Using 'clisp dummy.lisp' works.

Now I need to learn ELisp and CLisp. ;-]

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