From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:31:27 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87d42esdgw.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> References: <87hbrrrl3c.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261006919 32296 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 23:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:41:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 17 00:41:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NL3V9-0000qX-UD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NL3V9-0006dA-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:41:51 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Smr8sH4YQvTCeaulvfNLJ9F+sjo= Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1261006287 news.xs4all.nl 22935 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:29108 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175611 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70685 Archived-At: Sam Steingold 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 # #>: 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. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof