Re: How to communicate with a running external process with

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> There's a protocol that has been defined specifically to communicate
>> between an emacs and a Common Lisp process, with which a whole IDE has
>> been built in emacs, named slime (the backend, the library that
>> implements that protocol on the Common Lisp side is called swank (as is
>> called the protocol)).
>
> Oh, and if you're not using Common Lisp, you may want to consider
> porting swank to it, so that you can benefit from slime with your other
> lisp.  swank has already been ported to various other languages (scheme
> and R come to mind), so it shouldn't be too hard to port it to another
> lisp.

It has been done already by someone else, what opens new possibilities,
it just did not came to my mind when reading the process sections in the
Elisp manual.

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cheers,
Thorsten