From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: kixtart-mode Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:00:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87fsdkd8mg.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <6061-636c2e00-95-57685e00@208106730> <835yfjmits.fsf@gnu.org> <877cyxec00.fsf@telefonica.net> <83o7s8stgm.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17216"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lzKIWHgH/gbRvVevlOD9sVxTLBo= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 15:38:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p4jww-0004Fd-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:38:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4jvi-0004qs-V6; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4jMm-0001mp-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4jMh-0000b7-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p4jMd-000400-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:01:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:37:12 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301235 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> BUT, it is a bad thing if people use SickStart to write scripts >> >> that they could have written in a free scripting language. >> > >> > There are no scripting languages for MS-Windows that are Free >> > Software, AFAIK. >> >> After a cursory look at kixtart, I would say with confidence that Tcl/Tk >> with the twapi package provides a superset of its features. > > Does Tcl/Tk provide access to the low-level Windows APIs, like > Registry and Win32 functions? Registry access is provided by Tcl out of the box. Access to Windows APIs is provided by the twapi package. https://twapi.magicsplat.com/