How to open editor in --script file?

How to open editor in --script file?

[Jean Louis]

Hello,

I would like to use emacs in a script, and within
script I would like to use helm for selection.

I do get the helm prompt on command line, but not
the editor screen, so I cannot select anything.

Question is how to open the actual editor from the script?

Jean


#!/usr/local/bin/emacs --script
;; Time-stamp: "Thursday, May 23 2019, 08:08"
(setq *home* (getenv "HOME"))
(setq *local-elisp* (concat *home* "/Programming/emacs-lisp/"))
(add-to-list 'load-path *local-elisp*)

(setq *emacs.d* (concat *home* "/.emacs.d/"))
(setq *elpa* (concat *emacs.d* "elpa/"))
	     
(let ((default-directory *elpa*))
  (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))

(load "helm" nil t)

(setq temporary-file-directory "/home/data1/protected/tmp/")
(setenv "TMPDIR" temporary-file-directory)

(load "utilities" nil t)
(load "rcd-db" nil t)

;; (fundamental-mode)
;; (load "helm-mode")

;; Following should select a list within editor
;; and helm and return me ID number, and exit from script.
(rcd/combo-selection "accounts") 

Re: How to open editor in --script file?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 08:14:56 +0200
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> 
> I would like to use emacs in a script, and within
> script I would like to use helm for selection.
> 
> I do get the helm prompt on command line, but not
> the editor screen, so I cannot select anything.
> 
> Question is how to open the actual editor from the script?

You can't, not with --script.  The --script option causes Emacs to run
in batch mode, where it presents no windows/frames.