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Matt Price |
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break a chunk of text into a list of lines |
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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:24:30 -0500 |
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 07:50 -0800, Xah wrote:
> Can you make your question into one specific question?
>
> if you can make just one specific question, as much as possible to
> your problem, it's likely to get much useful replies.
>
> from scanning several replies, here's what i think might be helpful.
>
> if you want to write elisp to call some other script and process the
> result, it's fairly easy. If you can be specific about what command
> you want to call and how you want to parse the result, we can help
> better.
>
> The following tutorial will probably help:
>
> • Elisp Wrapper For Perl Scripts
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_perl_wrapper.html
> (you can use your existing knowledge of a scripting lang and turn them
> into elisp command)
>
> • Elisp Lesson: Writing image-linkify Function
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_image_tag.html
> (contains example of calling external script and process its result)
>
Xah,
thanks for the helpful links -- also thanks to other folks who have been
helping on this thread. I think i have two questions, so i'll write
them in two seperate emails.
I have a python script that queries my evolution database and returns a
series of lines, with one address per line:
matt@gont:~$ python evo-query.py matt
14 matches in 874 entries
matt@mdke.org Matthew East
matt.price@utoronto.ca Matt Price
moptop99@gmail.com Matt Price
mdz@canonical.com Matt Zimmerman
Matty_fontaine@hotmail.com Matt Fontaine
matt.price@utoronto.ca Matt Price
mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Matthew Garrett
myatesmyates@yahoo.com Matthew Yates
matthias.doerries@gersulp.u-strasbg.fr Matthias Dörries
matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu Matthew Flaschen
mcdavey@mrao.cam.ac.uk Matt Davey
matt@madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca Matt Wilks
MattVermeulen@gmail.com Matthew Vermeulen
matthewreedy@yahoo.com matthewreedy
(note the not-so-well-maintained duplicates!)
i've written a short function based on one of your examples that grabs
this output -- i imagine it needs some fixing up, but here it is:
(defun query-python-addressbook (name)
(interactive "s To:" )
(setq cmd-name "python /home/matt/evo-query.py")
(setq sh-output (shell-command-to-string (concat cmd-name " " name)))
(message "%s" sh-output)
)
(query-python-addressbook "matt") now returns a message with the this
text. instead i'd like it to return a list of names. i'm sure someone
will point me to the right info node, but i'm having some difficulty
navigating the immense amounts of documentation -- is there a simple way
to take each line of a text block and turn it into a list of lines?
thanks much! -- second quesiton to follow...
matt
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
--
Matt Price
matt.price@utoronto.ca
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