Re: Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Endless Story wrote:
> On Feb 10, 8:49 am, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Endless Story wrote:
> > (defun trivial-but-reasonably-valuable (string-to-match)
> >    (interactive "sMatch: ")
> >    (shell-command (format "/home/me/myscript.py %s"
> >                          (shell-quote-argument string-to-match))))
>
> Thanks! Below is what I ended up writing (after only 90 minutes of
> Googling!!) - now I'm going to try your suggestion of adding shell-
> quote-argument (which I gather from the doco does nice things like
> escape characters as necessary). Maybe it will obviate the need to
> remind the user (me) to use double quotes around multi-word input.

Yep.

> Boy, lisp is SO different than anything else I'm used to ...

In a a good way, I'm sure, unless you're used to modern functional
languages.

> (defun wl-psb (searchname)
>     (interactive"MName to search for, double-quoted: ")
>     (shell-command (concat "python c:/cygwin/home/texas/name_search.py
> " searchname)))

Just curious: Is the `M' interactive code necessary in your experience?
I've always just used `s'.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA