From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ns-do-applescript
Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 08:43:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leumebby.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nuimB-0007BC-AQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 27 May 2022 18:49:47 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I have never heard of "osascript". What is that? What systems
> support it? Does it exist on GNU/Linux?
It's only present in macOS.
> Basically, what are the differences that make it better to use
> osascript than applescript?
I think that binary _is_ Apple's proprietary AppleScript interpreter,
but using it in a subprocess to retrieve only contacts data (which is
already possible on free systems) must be more acceptable than Emacs
including a C primitive to do the same thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-28 0:43 UTC|newest]
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2022-05-23 12:14 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-23 20:44 ` ns-do-applescript Filipp Gunbin
2022-05-24 0:26 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-24 20:00 ` ns-do-applescript Daniel Martín
2022-05-24 20:11 ` ns-do-applescript Stefan Monnier
2022-05-25 13:57 ` ns-do-applescript Howard Melman
2022-05-26 8:27 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-26 14:03 ` ns-do-applescript Howard Melman
2022-05-26 14:17 ` ns-do-applescript Andreas Schwab
2022-05-26 14:51 ` ns-do-applescript Howard Melman
2022-05-26 15:36 ` ns-do-applescript Andreas Schwab
2022-05-26 8:24 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-26 8:49 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-27 22:49 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-28 0:43 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-05-29 21:21 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-29 23:56 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-31 19:05 ` ns-do-applescript chad
2022-06-01 0:35 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-06-01 1:10 ` ns-do-applescript Stefan Monnier
2022-06-01 22:57 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-24 21:26 ` ns-do-applescript Richard Stallman
2022-05-24 23:01 ` ns-do-applescript Filipp Gunbin
2022-05-25 0:50 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-25 12:09 ` ns-do-applescript Alexander Adolf
2022-05-24 21:21 ns-do-applescript Jon Snader
2022-05-25 2:28 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-25 2:58 ` ns-do-applescript Tim Cross
2022-05-25 4:46 ` ns-do-applescript Po Lu
2022-05-25 10:05 ` ns-do-applescript Filipp Gunbin
2022-05-25 11:42 ` ns-do-applescript Pankaj Jangid
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-26 11:01 ns-do-applescript Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-05-26 14:07 ` ns-do-applescript Howard Melman
2022-05-26 15:07 ` ns-do-applescript Stefan Monnier
2022-05-27 9:40 ` ns-do-applescript Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-05-31 6:34 ns-do-applescript Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2022-05-31 23:08 ` ns-do-applescript Stefan Monnier
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