Re: other "concurrency" approaches

[Nic Ferrier]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> What you want is the ability to do something like this:
>> 
>> 
>>  (let ((proc (start-process "emacs" args-to-make-it-headless)))
>>    (process-send-string proc (prin1-to-string '(+ 1 (* 30 45))))
>>    (process-send-eof proc)
>>    (print (buffer-string (process-buffer proc))))
>> 
>> in other words, an Emacs that just reads forms from stdin and executes
>> them and outputs to stdout.
>
> This sounds like a description of -batch, but you already know about
> it, so I'm quite sure I'm missing something important here.

-batch has a peculiar environment, it does not read the user's
environment.


Nic