Re: How to evaluating expressions in *inferior-lisp* buffer programatically?

[budu <nbuduroi@gmail.com>]

On Mar 14, 12:24 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> budu <nbudu...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi, I've been using Emacs for a few year, but I'm just starting to
> > customize it more deeply. I wonder what is the recommended way of
> > evaluating expressions in the current *inferior-lisp* buffer
> > programatically? I know macros would certainly be OK for such a simple
> > task, yet I tried with elisp and come up with this:
>
> >     (save-current-buffer
> >       (set-buffer "*inferior-lisp*")
> >       (insert "(use '(foo [bar]))")
> >       (lisp-eval-last-sexp)
> >       (let ((s (point)))
> >         (backward-sexp)
> >         (delete-region s (point))))
>
> > Do you know of a more straightforward way of doing this? And do you
> > know of any good tutorial on basic elisp? Thanks
>
> (defun eval-in-inferior-lisp (expression-string)
>   (comint-send-string (inferior-lisp-proc) (format " %s\n" expression-string))
>   (switch-to-lisp t))
>
> (eval-in-inferior-lisp "(- 22/7 cl:pi)")
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__

Great! This will be much cleaner. Thanks