From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: read-string from standard-input? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:53:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3fbc374.fsf@gmx.de> References: <8737rts3td.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458046447 3825 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2016 12:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 13:53:59 2016 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 1afoU0-0005mx-SQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:53:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoU0-0008TK-BU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoTp-0008SM-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoTm-0001Uk-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:62492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afoTm-0001Ua-Jm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([87.146.55.88]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MRo6b-1aDbIG0u6L-00Sz0p; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:53:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:35:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:hoYHzA9Acp2Di2ywKFd8moic6kJT3KiCpYfiI4gTq5Wo5dpmJ9x k3w6CERnEEPEzoEnpoqJHG0Ecu+z6CuYIabD5rBA6CP/kWSY+TqC7eawrYRN81SvnsLf0lg H+LF2t9SdR8zVHphNJOsZyHktykLmZuto6en3z0yeWHb3voBybdcyVWwdh3nuHpgG87f4AD PDxSZfd9p/1NHKI+9f1KQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:q7ysmgH82n4=:ZIGGaKw/V3HNm+EfiHDEoC HowbqDr0jIBqbKd/9GfehH3oSklRqwpfNbWPxdiv1nADT52Ex5BcUMuWh1JBdkmp/SGGeAKYF m+jBTht3sGA4FtamuvTNUkcNyOB4r2NFWhguyhsXI7JOVRb/8zz65Olb7Iqv9vdzlpDAqpES5 nuUYPAqKr8Il32aFeNuBc0aRMOUgpQlKRpxv5sK0PVGqTBIE+tjUbHnge2DZ3Aqh5dxXavUWE IbyXRCHOBcgc+fXx46+Rc7SWNZu2Ads+WHEBuajbbPOGXgIlCOdrTNo/HQ8jyN+/+V2ZWLyG+ qJKqJRgQQ5jNLV63n+VB6llry5w0qkJH0n+T7EpXlxYSBzeeWT0gLJ/qR1U28rnTjA9TjN+Ul vgO7feGfvzu87zyBFxZlQsntXg8TxqJtlKUW5HNi6pRLx6CSuhqAmul/fUQCnm+BJ0XIdOffa ZdjGVNKu/E1mTu7Dsb8x4pud8xx8tSgxGUjbZSZY1vsSUi1Ae0TrOMGD18yNL2i0jebbbuLAq ZhZy6ypx0RgZzHxUeOqJ3wXYBPjqmWtC3395UirWfLOjXp2ZeaOB3dUsXhj4XtsMb5Tfv5Ffl Dn+qs/8KJpkq1qAnssP/qfS7xSv0L2Hgr9sYkoHpSLIAiusK+8ef6b3wG4VuiVZf5H1JShdot eGgIkQZflVTgGevK3xvaK1uY+5emdmpzibkg5OXz9wfjP5pMCRmHqbgoQ2SYTYOLHW3H24fGk IUWkRVsPjWvsMdX/Eltd7ATiwWNjMWsWfq1mycOg5g1hGCyY7ST/nT0GotMIfCYoaynFXYh7 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.15 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:109582 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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.