From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:22:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2c4tcsd.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7068.1407955728.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> writes:
> One example of the worthiness of exec is cask, an
> Emacs package manager that sometimes wants to fork
> out to an emacs instance, for editing text files.
It seems to me that either you do the job within the
process, or you start a new process to do it.
Are you saying, you want to start a new process, then
have the old process replaced by that process?
If so, why?
--
underground experts united
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-13 19:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.7022.1407855404.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 15:29 ` Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function Barry Margolin
2014-08-13 17:52 ` Andrew Pennebaker
[not found] ` <mailman.7066.1407952350.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 18:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 18:48 ` Andrew Pennebaker
[not found] ` <mailman.7068.1407955728.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 19:22 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-08-13 20:36 ` Barry Margolin
2014-08-13 21:42 ` Andrew Pennebaker
2014-08-14 6:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.7080.1407966184.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 22:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 22:50 ` Andrew Pennebaker
2014-08-14 9:23 ` Barry Margolin
2014-08-14 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-12 14:56 Andrew Pennebaker
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