From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)?
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:30:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4bsu5ck.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a9iimeky.fsf@gmail.com
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
> ,----------------------------------------------
> | load returns t if the file loads successfully
> `----------------------------------------------
>
> but I would rather like to write a (big) Elisp expression into a file,
> load the file, and get the expression's return value instead of just
> 't'.
You could find the file, use `read' to get the expression, and `eval'
it. That's probably the canonical way.
Or you could, instead of just saving an expression to a file, save a
sexp that evals the expression and stores it to a global variable. Then
after loading the file, this variable is bound to the result of the
evaluated expression.
Regards,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-10 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 19:25 Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-10 22:30 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-10-15 13:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
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