From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote. Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:18:22 +0900 Message-ID: <22057.3150.556160.166571@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87si59wj42.fsf@T420.taylan> <87io61igyu.fsf@T420.taylan> <56267CDF.6010201@yandex.ru> <87wpuhh15s.fsf@T420.taylan> <562683B9.1060305@yandex.ru> <83y4exe71v.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4ewoqbs.fsf@fastmail.com> <83si54e2qx.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4ew8fue.fsf@fastmail.com> <83zizcurco.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2qgw3q1.fsf@fastmail.com> <83lhawuny4.fsf@gnu.org> <8737x4vyyg.fsf@fastmail.com> <83bnbsujqd.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4ewujf8.fsf@fastmail.com> <837fmguixu.fsf@gnu.org> <87twpkhugn.fsf@fastmail.com> <8337x3vd8d.fsf@gnu.org> <871tcnz8or.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87611zuikf.fsf@fastmail.com> <87y4evvwko.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vb9zt188.fsf@fastmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445530731 29854 80.91.229.3 (22 Oct 2015 16:18:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Random832 Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 22 18:18:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZpIZg-00062G-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIZb-0007tA-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIZR-0007fF-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:18:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIZM-0001nq-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.96.25]:53014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIZM-0001nm-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIZK-0006De-J9; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:18:22 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87vb9zt188.fsf@fastmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 698a9aa86de4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: steve@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 130.158.96.25 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192407 Archived-At: Random832 writes: > And I am becoming increasingly confused as to what the purpose of > shell-command is. As a command, it's a convenience for users who want to give commands to a shell, rather than write a Lisp script, to interact with the underlying system. As a function, it's an API for embedding the same functionality in a Lisp program.