Re: How to evaluating expressions in *inferior-lisp* buffer programatically?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

budu <nbuduroi@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I've been using Emacs for a few year, but I'm just starting to
> customize it more deeply. I wonder what is the recommended way of
> evaluating expressions in the current *inferior-lisp* buffer
> programatically? I know macros would certainly be OK for such a simple
> task, yet I tried with elisp and come up with this:
>
>     (save-current-buffer
>       (set-buffer "*inferior-lisp*")
>       (insert "(use '(foo [bar]))")
>       (lisp-eval-last-sexp)
>       (let ((s (point)))
>         (backward-sexp)
>         (delete-region s (point))))
>
> Do you know of a more straightforward way of doing this? And do you
> know of any good tutorial on basic elisp? Thanks

(defun eval-in-inferior-lisp (expression-string)
  (comint-send-string (inferior-lisp-proc) (format " %s\n" expression-string))
  (switch-to-lisp t))

(eval-in-inferior-lisp "(- 22/7 cl:pi)")



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__Pascal Bourguignon__