From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: reading from standard input in batch mode
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:50:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-85Zx7nwWwH9PZ1=XBkiFVq6xPwu+BO8GqwdtWUAmnu3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lizzah6.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On 22 May 2018 at 16:44, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> (shell-command
>> "emacs -Q --batch -l boomerang.el -f boomerang \"hi there\"")
>>
>> The subordinate emacs starts and finishes (returning 255, which just
>> came up on a thread in emacs.devel, I think), but no file is written. As
>> far as I know, `read' should be reading from standard-input in this
>> case. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I figured it out, it should have been (read t). Ignore me!
Shouldn't it have been:
(shell-command
"echo \"hi there\" | emacs -Q --batch -l boomerang.el -f boomerang")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-22 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 20:16 reading from standard input in batch mode Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 20:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 20:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 20:50 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-05-22 21:07 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 21:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-22 21:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-22 21:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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