From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:29:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-E27F7E.11290913082014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7022.1407855404.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.7022.1407855404.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could the next version of Emacs / elisp expose `exec` as a built-in elisp
> function?
Isn't this pretty much what start-process does?
>
> The Unix `exec` semantic is useful for Cask and other Emacs-related
> programs, but is currently not accessible via elisp. If it were, elisp
> programs could, for example, begin an Emacs editing session even though the
> elisp program itself was originally run using emacs.
I can't figure out what you're talking about here.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2014-08-13 15:29 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-08-13 17:52 ` Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function Andrew Pennebaker
[not found] ` <mailman.7066.1407952350.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 18:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 18:48 ` Andrew Pennebaker
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2014-08-13 19:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 20:36 ` Barry Margolin
2014-08-13 21:42 ` Andrew Pennebaker
2014-08-14 6:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.7080.1407966184.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 22:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 22:50 ` Andrew Pennebaker
2014-08-14 9:23 ` Barry Margolin
2014-08-14 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-13 13:44 Andrew Pennebaker
2014-08-13 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-13 18:27 ` Glenn Morris
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2014-08-12 14:56 Andrew Pennebaker
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