From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:22:42 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2c4tcsd.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87mwb8tej5.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407957925 30179 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2014 19:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 21:25:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHeAe-0002yz-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHeAd-0004mK-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:25:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Okz3Fl2nHnC4fc6FgtdN4y/XEI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206920 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:99196 Archived-At: Andrew Pennebaker 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