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 11:29:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407943827 27722 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2014 15:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:30:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 17:30:19 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 1XHaVF-0006DB-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHaVF-0003QQ-F6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.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: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="4209"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/URS4DiqXKrARBeemnM0sQ" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mW+2R8lBVakqEcryAq3n4NSs3nw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206912 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:99187 Archived-At: In article , Andrew Pennebaker 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***