Re: other "concurrency" approaches

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:16:10 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> What you want is the ability to do something like this:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  (let ((proc (start-process "emacs" args-to-make-it-headless)))
> >>    (process-send-string proc (prin1-to-string '(+ 1 (* 30 45))))
> >>    (process-send-eof proc)
> >>    (print (buffer-string (process-buffer proc))))
> >> 
> >> in other words, an Emacs that just reads forms from stdin and executes
> >> them and outputs to stdout.
> >
> > This sounds like a description of -batch, but you already know about
> > it, so I'm quite sure I'm missing something important here.
> 
> -batch has a peculiar environment, it does not read the user's
> environment.

You mean, the init files?  But you can load them via -l, no?