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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-string from standard-input?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:35:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd1qv9ayd.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8737rts3td.fsf@gmx.de

> Running regression tests with interactive input is not what I want. Is
> there a technique, that read-string takes its input from a stream, like
> standard-input?

I'm not sure I understand.

    % emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message (read-string "hello:"))'

shows that `read-string' does read from stdin already if we're not in an
interactive session.  What am I missing?


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14 11:21 read-string from standard-input? Michael Albinus
2016-03-14 14:01 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-14 14:42   ` Michael Albinus
2016-03-15 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-03-15 12:53   ` Michael Albinus

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