From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x call with optional arg; call from Elisp
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:44:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ko6ot4$glf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvx6ubkr.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>
On 5/28/13 1:52 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Don't use shell-command-on-region from Elisp. Use
>> call-process-region instead.
>
> The above function seems to work. shell-command-on-region and
> call-process-region are not syntactically interchangeable, but I'll
> do it if you care to tell me the advantage.
If you are not using shell features such as redirection, pipes, globbing (file
name expansion), variable expansion, conditional and iterative control flow
etc. then there is no need to invoke an additional/intermediary shell process
between emacs and the command you want to run.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 16:03 M-x call with optional arg; call from Elisp Emanuel Berg
2013-05-27 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-05-28 19:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-05-27 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.476.1369681518.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-28 19:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-05-30 5:44 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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