From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:23:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mwb8tej5.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408008327 23704 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2014 09:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:25:27 +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 11:25:20 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 1XHrHb-0004R4-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHrHa-000259-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:25:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="22996"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JHLRowgcmBeYlVO4wxDHw" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D/BfEkhqo6E1W+isrd8YjNprYpI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206933 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:99209 Archived-At: In article , Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > Eh, what if you don't want the second emacs call to use the same emacs > configuration, etc. etc. as the parent emacs process? I'm not sure why you'd want different Emacs configuration just for that one task (couldn't you just put that buffer in an appropriate major mode?), but to each his own. 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. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***