From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is comint the way to go? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:28:08 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87tzxc7edz.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172266839 31216 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2007 21:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 22:40:32 2007 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 1HKi9X-0002Da-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKi9X-0007JR-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:40:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKi7a-0005zg-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKi7Y-0005vP-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKi7X-0005uq-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HKi7X-0007eu-90 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HKi7O-0005xa-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:38:18 +0100 Original-Received: from e178024004.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.24.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:38:18 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178024004.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:38:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178024004.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C4jS4kD76HCS6r6+kVB1fQXUp0w= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:41441 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:40:18 +0100 Mathias Dahl wrote: > I want to write a command line interface to a program that isn't > command line driven. In fact, it is not even a program, it is a > database with a specific schema. What I want to do is create a > package that let's the user navigate this database using familiar > command line commands like `cd' and `ls'. Maybe something like FUSE[1]? But this will only work on Linux and i have no idea if any other OS provides some similar feature. David Footnotes: [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/