From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Detecting a running process in Elisp Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <996c5fc5-ca40-4587-a4f9-745efe0a45ed@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374853865 10395 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 15:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:51:05 +0000 (UTC) To: gentsquash@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 17:51:05 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 1V2kIL-0007vn-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:51:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2kIL-0001eS-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2kHz-0001Yy-O2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2kHy-0002am-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2kHx-0002Y9-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r6QFoaUA005877 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:50:37 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QFoavK012989 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:50:36 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt120.oracle.com (abhmt120.oracle.com [141.146.116.72]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6QFoaOT016043; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:50:36 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:92451 Archived-At: > I have a process "ScidvsMac" which I'd like to detect in > Elisp. I'm currently using > (search "ScidvsMac" (shell-command-to-string "ps -A")) > but is there something cleaner? Without knowing anything about processes in Elisp, I tried using apropos "processes" (apropos "process" had too many hits). That led me to `list-processes', which led me to `list-processes--refresh'. That led me to `process-list', which I imagine you can use to get what you want. Each element of `process-list' is supposedly a process object (the doc is not terrific for `process-list'), which means you can use functions such as `process-buffer', `process-name', `process-type', `process-status', and `process-attributes' on it. HTH. Remember: `apropos' and its friends are your friends.