Questions tagged [script]
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Print process output line by line
Read process output line by line gives some partial ideas about how to deal with sub-process output in an intelligent manner, but no example and no working solution. I have a couple of examples, one of them works (badly) and the other doesn't.
To…
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How can I detect if an elisp script is piped?
I want to be able to tell whether stdout is a pipe in an elisp script. This would allow to distinguish between:
$ emacs --script foo.el
and
$ emacs --script foo.el | cat
Is this possible in Emacs lisp? Most programming languages have this in the…
Wilfred Hughes
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How can I script an emacs recording session?
Recording a GIF screencast of Emacs details a few ways we can record screencasts of Emacs sessions (e.g. to demonstrate features), but I'm really bad at not screwing things up :-)
Is there a way to script a session such that I can fake proficiency…
Sean Allred
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How to add a new input method for Syriac script in Emacs?
I want to write an article in English mingled with Syriac script in emacs, when I hit list-input-methods the script is not shown, or at least I couldn't identify this language in the displayed list. However, I am using a machine running Linux Ubuntu…
doctorate
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How to run elisp checking utilities from the command line?
There are a number of emacs-lisp checking utilities - for example:
checkdoc.
package-lint.
relint.
byte-code-compilation.
Are there existing ways to quickly run this on an entire project without having to access each individually (for every…
ideasman42
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Emacs script to indent files from the command line
I am trying to create an Emacs script that indents HTML files from the command line. This is what I have so far:
#!/usr/bin/env -S emacs --script
(require 'web-mode)
(indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)
(save-buffer)
I saved this file as…
Jaap Joris Vens
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Print shell-command output to STDOUT?
Is there an equivalent of C's system(char*) or Python's os.system(string) for emacs --script?
I want to use Emacs for shell-scripting purposes. However, I cannot find a function that allows running an executable in a subprocess and connectings its…
kdb
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emacsclient's "--script" option alternatives
To run an elisp file hello.el with emacs in cli, do simply
$ emacs --script hello.el
However, a naive try for emacsclient fails, as --script is not an option of emacsclient.
$ emacsclient --script
emacsclient: unrecognized option '--script'
Try…
Student
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Slurp standard-input into a buffer
How do I read the entire contents of stdin into an Emacs buffer in #! /usr/bin/env emacs --script mode? Stdin may not be a regular file.
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Is --script a valid emacs switch?
When I execute
emacs --batch --script=/home/jim/test.el --no-site-file --file=testing
I get:
Cannot open load file: no such file or directory, /home/jim/--script=/home/jim/test.el
While emacs --help shows --script in its list of options, executing…
Jim
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Can I call a python script from emacs?
I have a simple python script:
$ cat ~/simple.py
import os
import sys
def write_greeting(inpath):
outpath = os.path.splitext(inpath)[0] + '.txt'
with open(outpath, 'w') as f:
f.write('hello world!')
sys.stdout.write('wrote…
Brian Fitzpatrick
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How to build a script that queries an org-table?
I have a list of more than 80 search engines to perform keyword searches. They are listed in an org-table like this:
#+name: keyword-search
|---------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+-----|
| Name …
crocefisso
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Using Emacs to find and copy relevant database records
I have reduced a large text file to a 1.9GB size that Microsoft Access can handle, but only as a linked file. To permit full Access operations - to import the relevant data into Access - I need to extract, from that file, only the potentially…
Ray Woodcock
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Why does the same code called first by bash and then by emacs not behave the same way?
I have this LaTeX code:
%% test.tex
\begin{wrapfig}
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{fig1.eps}\end{wrapfig}
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{fig2.eps}
I have a script called fix-files-ext.sh that fixes the extensions of graphic files (in this example it will…
Onner Irotsab
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How can I run a subprocess with emacs --script
I'm trying to write a script using emacs --script and in it I am using start-process, because I want to use set-process-filter.
The following does nothing if run as a script:
#!/usr/bin/env -S emacs -Q --script # -*- mode: emacs-lisp;…
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