From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 21:44:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YG9PCFK6dQEB1IO+@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7kg8vyx.fsf@gnu.org>
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-04-08 21:37]:
> > Then to have output in buffer, I need call-process, but then again I
> > need to enter that buffer and read string out of it.
>
> You can use with-current-buffer for that.
>
> > Again I have to use strings there.
>
> Depends on what you want to do with that string. My point is:
> whatever you want to do with the string, do it with buffer text
> instead.
I have got the point, thank you. I am changing code shaped by advises.
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-08 7:40 Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string? Jean Louis
2021-04-08 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 11:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 15:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 18:17 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-08 18:44 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-04-08 17:18 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-08 18:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 19:41 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-09 8:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-09 10:07 ` tomas
2021-04-08 13:08 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-08 15:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08 18:33 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-08 18:40 ` Jean Louis
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