From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)?
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:51:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l3jh77$41j$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9iimeky.fsf@gmail.com>
On 10/9/13 1:25 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> the manual says
>
> ,----------------------------------------------
> | load returns t if the file loads successfully
> `----------------------------------------------
>
> but I would rather like to write a (big) Elisp expression into a file,
> load the file, and get the expression's return value instead of just
> 't'.
>
> Something like
>
> ,------------------------------
> | (eval-buffer (find-file ...))
> `------------------------------
>
> does not do the job either.
(eval (read (find-file-noselect "/my/file.el")))
> Did I overlook the simple and canonical way to do this?
> This is mainly to avoid that shell commands like
>
> ,-------------------------------------------------------------
> | $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "( ... elisp expressions ...)"
> `-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> become too long, and thus replace them with something like:
>
> ,-------------------------------------------------------------
> | $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "(load-file \"/my/file.el\")"
> `-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> where /my/file.el contains those elisp expressions.
Of course, (eval-buffer (find-file-noselect "/my/file.el")) works in this
context as well, because the result of the -e EXPRESSION is discarded anyway.
Which leads back to emacsclient -l "/my/file.el"
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2013-10-09 19:25 Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-10 22:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-10-15 13:51 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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