From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Look for data serialisation format to implement communication between Emacs and external program.
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:46:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3rqudz6.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehhyc7g1.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> (Oleksandr Gavenko's message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:44:46 +0200")
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() Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
() Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:44:46 +0200
Another formats like JSON or sexp also look nice but I don't know
about Emacs support for this formats.
Any advice is welcome!
Go with sexp. If you must touch XML, at least dress it up as SXML,
which, aside from being less ugly, extends interop to include Scheme.
E.g., sexp + SXML is the approach IXIN uses. Latest announcement:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2013-01/msg00000.html>.
If you absolutely need a binary (non-text) format, then i would next
recommend bindat.el (info "(elisp) Byte Packing") for the job. Perhaps
ASN.1 can be layered on top of bindat.el, but that doesn't sound so fun.
(But what do i know about ASN.1 and/or fun?)
Lastly, on the other side of the pipe, why not consider Emacs itself, or
Guile, or something that can ‘read’ a sexp?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-06 21:44 Look for data serialisation format to implement communication between Emacs and external program Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-01-06 22:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2013-01-07 13:35 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-01-08 9:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-01-07 21:57 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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2013-01-07 7:53 ` Helmut Eller
2013-01-07 13:53 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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