Re: read-string from standard-input?

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Running regression tests with interactive input is not what I want. Is
>> there a technique, that read-string takes its input from a stream, like
>> standard-input?
>
> I'm not sure I understand.
>
>     % emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message (read-string "hello:"))'
>
> shows that `read-string' does read from stdin already if we're not in an
> interactive session.  What am I missing?

I do not want to read from stdin (UNIX level). I want to read from a
stream inside Emacs (buffer or string), defined by the Lisp variable
`standard-input'.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.