From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to communicate with a running external process with Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:15:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87li4x9gnh.fsf@gmail.com> References: <7DEC2F40B9E0874681480168A47FD3C11AF1E5E6@MSGPEXCEI32B.mfad.mfroot.org> <87txjlr9js.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip013xap.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374610819 17682 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2013 20:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 23 22:20:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j4F-0001u5-2I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j4E-0006Lt-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j43-0006Jp-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j42-0002WA-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j42-0002Vu-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1j3z-0001aG-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from g231235179.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.235.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231235179.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231235179.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9cLZXPHsQpKp/ypBbwg7qWHn7F0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92354 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" 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. -- cheers, Thorsten