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: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mwb8tej5.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407962429 20273 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2014 20:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 22:40:22 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 1XHfLI-0002NS-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHfLI-0001Io-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!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: 19 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="25019"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mMtUj5M/Sykh3JBy8+p6A" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6sJTWrdBbJDQ4FgrTsUVyeS6fDQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206921 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:99197 Archived-At: In article , Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > One example of the worthiness of exec is cask, an Emacs package manager > that sometimes wants to fork out to an emacs instance, for editing text > files. I'm not familiar with cask, but usually if you run something within Emacs, and it wants you to edit something, you set EDITOR=emacsclient so that it goes back to the original Emacs instance. You don't need to start a new Emacs instance. And that still doesn't explain why you would want to kill the original Emacs instance when running cask. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***