From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:49:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1171026496.713032.169290@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171097399 27223 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 08:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:49:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 09:49:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFnvd-0007kr-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:49:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnvc-0002yM-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:49:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnvN-0002yH-9s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnvM-0002y5-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnvM-0002y2-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFnvM-0002Um-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnvE-0006I3-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:49:28 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:49:28 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:49:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <1171026496.713032.169290@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41055 Archived-At: Endless Story wrote: > I have hacked out a Python script to do something trivial but > reasonably valuable to me (search a bunch of files for a matching > string pulled from another file). Well, okay, now I want to call this > script from the Emacs minibuffer ... but my understanding of lisp is > pretty poor, which is why I wrote the script in Python to begin with! > (took me a couple of hours instead of a month). > > Can anyone give me a simple recipe for an interactive function that > will do the following: > > 1) In the minibuffer, prompt me for a string to enter. > 2) Feed the string as the sole argument to the Python script (let's > say it's at /home/me/myscript.py). > 3) Display the return value in the minibuffer (defun trivial-but-reasonably-valuable (string-to-match) (interactive "sMatch: ") (shell-command (format "/home/me/myscript.py %s" (shell-quote-argument string-to-match)))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA