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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.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-28  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87bkvoo38y.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
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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