From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Instruct emacs --batch to wait for something
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf1la10j.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czmy91l2.fsf@gmail.com>
On 2021-11-17, at 17:41, Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use Emacs as a tool for getting the text representation of
> a website. For doing this, I'm using "eww" and I've written the
> following command that I intend to use in the command line.
>
> #+begin_src bash
> emacs \
> --batch \
> --eval='(eww "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Intro.html")' \
> --eval='(with-current-buffer "*eww*" (princ (buffer-string)))'
> #+end_src
>
> The problem with this command is that it shows the following instead of
> showing the website.
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+begin_example
> Loading https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Intro.html...
> #+end_example
>
> My question is: How can I instruct Emacs to wait for something when the
> =--batch= flag is used?
I don't know, but did you try something blunt like
--eval='(sleep-for 5)'?
Of course, this would be very fragile and far from good practice...
Alternatively, maybe `eww-after-render-hook' would be useful?
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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2021-11-17 16:41 Instruct emacs --batch to wait for something Rodrigo Morales
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