Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

[Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> 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 use clisp for all scripting, interactive and not.
> Common Lisp is more powerful than Emacs Lisp and clisp is faster than
> emacs.

Okay. I'll look into that. Emacs is more general, because it will be
installed on more systems. But when Common Lisp is a better option, I
should maybe go for it.

By the way. I have been looking into Common Lisp and I understood that
the following is correct:
    (list a: 1)
But I get:
    *** - READ uit #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: er is geen package met naam "A"
    Mogelijkheden om opnieuw te beginnen:
    ABORT          :R1      ABORT
    ABORT          :R2      ABORT
    ABORT          :R3      ABORT
What is going wrong here?
On the system is the version: GNU CLISP 2.39. So maybe I should update.


>> Also I use three evals. One to define the function, one to compile it
>> and one to call it. Can this be done better?
>
> yes. you do not need any evals.
> you put your function into a file, byte-compile the file, and then load
> the file and call the function from the command line.

I thought about this, but the functionality is run from a bash-script. I
like to have everything in one file, but maybe I should work with
several files.

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