From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:15:48 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zjf6hiwr.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87mwb8tej5.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408051225 31287 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2014 21:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:20:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 23:20:18 2014 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 1XI2RW-0004eg-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XI2RV-0006gj-Ob for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:20:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:V2XT3Q21RqI3psd8An0ASyHAc2A= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206942 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:99218 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > But you still haven't answered: why should editing > the cask files in a new Emacs instance require > replacing the original Emacs instance, instead of > running both of them concurrently? This "exec" > operation will need to perform all the actions done > during kill-emacs, like asking about saving modified > buffers, killing running processes, etc. Indeed, why would anyone like to kill Emacs? It is inconceivable :) -- underground experts united