From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Instruct emacs --batch to wait for something Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87lf1la10j.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87czmy91l2.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17743"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rodrigo Morales Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 17:22:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1mnkB1-0004Om-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:22:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnkB0-0003u5-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:22:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnk9n-0003q1-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:40668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnk9i-0005lQ-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F334E6475; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sVZAhry1RYbz; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (83.8.134.102.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl [83.8.134.102]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E62EE61C4; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:45 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87czmy91l2.fsf@gmail.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134648 Archived-At: On 2021-11-17, at 17:41, Rodrigo Morales 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