On 2014-06-13 01:59, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> Okay, good, so it calls applescript.
>
> Is there a way to have emacs call applescript programs?
>
> It seems "yes", but I can't tell for sure.
>
> *http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc21
> <http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc21>*

This file (in org mode contrib)
http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/contrib/lisp/org-mac-link.el
shows how to do it. I think this is the relevant code.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
;; In mac.c, removed in Emacs 23.
(declare-function do-applescript "org-mac-message" (script))
(unless (fboundp 'do-applescript)
  ;; Need to fake this using shell-command-to-string
  (defun do-applescript (script)
    (let (start cmd return)
      (while (string-match "\n" script)
        (setq script (replace-match "\r" t t script)))
      (while (string-match "'" script start)
        (setq start (+ 2 (match-beginning 0))
              script (replace-match "\\'" t t script)))
      (setq cmd (concat "osascript -e '" script "'"))
      (setq return (shell-command-to-string cmd))
      (concat "\"" (org-trim return) "\""))))
#+end_src

Alan

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