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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:20:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eqrlbf$age$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171105054.246773.140640@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>

Endless Story wrote:
> On Feb 10, 8:49 am, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Endless Story wrote:
>> (defun trivial-but-reasonably-valuable (string-to-match)
>>    (interactive "sMatch: ")
>>    (shell-command (format "/home/me/myscript.py %s"
>>                          (shell-quote-argument string-to-match))))
> 
> Thanks! Below is what I ended up writing (after only 90 minutes of
> Googling!!) - now I'm going to try your suggestion of adding shell-
> quote-argument (which I gather from the doco does nice things like
> escape characters as necessary). Maybe it will obviate the need to
> remind the user (me) to use double quotes around multi-word input.

Yep.

> Boy, lisp is SO different than anything else I'm used to ...

In a a good way, I'm sure, unless you're used to modern functional
languages.

> (defun wl-psb (searchname)
>     (interactive"MName to search for, double-quoted: ")
>     (shell-command (concat "python c:/cygwin/home/texas/name_search.py
> " searchname)))

Just curious: Is the `M' interactive code necessary in your experience?
I've always just used `s'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09 13:08 Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script? Endless Story
2007-02-09 14:18 ` Stack
2007-02-10  8:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.4285.1171097378.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-10 10:57   ` Endless Story
2007-02-13  6:20     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4406.1171347657.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-13 11:21       ` Endless Story
2007-02-14 17:32         ` Edward Dodge

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