From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)?
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:25:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9iimeky.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi List,
the manual says
,----------------------------------------------
| load returns t if the file loads successfully
`----------------------------------------------
but I would rather like to write a (big) Elisp expression into a file,
load the file, and get the expression's return value instead of just
't'.
Something like
,------------------------------
| (eval-buffer (find-file ...))
`------------------------------
does not do the job either.
Did I overlook the simple and canonical way to do this?
This is mainly to avoid that shell commands like
,-------------------------------------------------------------
| $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "( ... elisp expressions ...)"
`-------------------------------------------------------------
become too long, and thus replace them with something like:
,-------------------------------------------------------------
| $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "(load-file \"/my/file.el\")"
`-------------------------------------------------------------
where /my/file.el contains those elisp expressions.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 19:25 Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-10-10 22:30 ` Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)? Michael Heerdegen
2013-10-15 13:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
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