From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: GNU Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to reliably edit a file from within Emacs Lisp and return a string?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:22:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_rrRE_SA-fQGzuJ8rm0_9Fqz4q-mDNT3_L65uujEF0ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822224604.GA10900@protected.rcdrun.com>
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 18:46, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> I cannot conclusively know and I do not know how to know it, from
> within Emacs Lisp, that a buffer has been killed.
Adding a function to kill-buffer-hook should work fine for that. But...
> Yes. I need to be able to run function that waits on the buffer to be
> killed, so that I can read string from the file that related to the
> buffer.
The difficulty is the waiting part. Traditionally, you would stuff the
rest of your code into a lambda callback, which means you can't have a
function like edit-and-return, because the flow needs to inverted. You
can have edit-and-do-with-resulting-string:
;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
(defun call-with-edited-value (value function &optional buffer-name)
"Edit VALUE and then call FUNCTION on it."
(with-current-buffer (pop-to-buffer-same-window
(or buffer-name "*edit-string*"))
(add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook
(lambda () (funcall function (buffer-string))))
(text-mode)
(insert value)
(setq header-line-format
(substitute-command-keys
"➜ Finish editing with \\[kill-buffer]"))
(message "When you're done editing press %s to continue."
(substitute-command-keys "\\[kill-buffer]"))))
;; Example call:
(call-with-edited-value
"initial value"
(lambda (v)
(message "The value is now %S" v)))
It might be possible to use threads for waiting and get more linear
code that way, though there are still some rough spots around user
interaction from non-main threads, so it may also be somewhat tricky.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-22 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-22 21:31 How to reliably edit a file from within Emacs Lisp and return a string? Jean Louis
2019-08-22 22:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-22 22:46 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-22 23:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-08-22 23:22 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-08-23 1:19 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-23 1:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-23 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-23 14:01 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-23 14:14 ` Robert Pluim
2019-08-24 12:20 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 12:24 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-23 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 12:19 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 12:41 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 14:14 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 14:55 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 15:51 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 16:44 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 17:17 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 17:37 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 18:50 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 21:30 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 17:15 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 16:18 ` Yuri Khan
2019-08-24 17:07 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-24 13:08 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-23 21:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-08-24 12:15 ` Jean Louis
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