From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: read-string from standard-input? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:35:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737rts3td.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458045388 17245 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2016 12:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:36:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 13:36:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCw-0002qI-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:36:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCq-0002ae-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCf-0002ZW-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCa-0004xL-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCZ-0004x0-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1afoCV-0002cS-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:35:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 75-119-244-10.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.244.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:35:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-244-10.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:35:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-244-10.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LJBgPfS93h+jIIIGlWm14iHg7hE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109581 Archived-At: > Running regression tests with interactive input is not what I want. Is > there a technique, that read-string takes its input from a stream, like > standard-input? I'm not sure I understand. % emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message (read-string "hello:"))' shows that `read-string' does read from stdin already if we're not in an interactive session. What am I missing? Stefan