From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to reliably edit a file from within Emacs Lisp and return a string? Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 20:23:16 +0300 Message-ID: <837e72iikb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190824124120.GT5516@protected.rcdrun.com> <83mufyitye.fsf@gnu.org> <20190824141421.GB11116@protected.rcdrun.com> <20190824145512.GA11684@protected.rcdrun.com> <83h866iopc.fsf@gnu.org> <20190824155103.GB11684@protected.rcdrun.com> <83ef1ailw5.fsf@gnu.org> <20190824164439.GC11684@protected.rcdrun.com> <83blweijtt.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7byijji.fsf@gnu.org> <20190824171711.GF11684@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="132958"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 24 19:23:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i1ZlK-000YSK-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38766 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i1ZlJ-00065J-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i1Zl1-00065A-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i1Zl1-0005lh-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2367 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i1Zl0-0001sY-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:23:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190824171711.GF11684@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:17:11 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121377 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:17:11 +0200 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > ยง emacsclient "file" > > > > > > > > it works here inside of M-x shell where it says "Waiting for > > > > Emacs..." > > > > > > > > So I can launch emacsclient from shell within Emacs with waiting > > > > stage. > > > > > > Yes, but this won't get you anywhere past the waiting stage, because > > > there's no Emacs server that can serve the emacsclient's request. > > > > Actually, you know what: it will work. So if you insist on doing it > > via emacsclient, go ahead and do it via the shell buffer. > > I have strong feeling that it can work. Please give me better > specification. Which function you propose? I don't understand the question. I thought you have already figured everything out for doing this via emacsclient. Otherwise, why did you keep asking about emacsclient all the time?