From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)? Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:25:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87a9iimeky.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381346791 26685 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2013 19:26:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:26:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 09 21:26:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VTzP0-0000ds-Ir for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzP0-0001IX-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzOP-0000wx-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzOI-0003Hq-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzOH-0003Hc-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzOF-00009N-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:25:47 +0200 Original-Received: from e178191060.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.191.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:25:47 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178191060.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:25:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178191060.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rf8aSy3EhyjtGWXNT8ntL3/8ESI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93895 Archived-At: 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