Re: launching a perl script

[XeCycle]

Mart Zirnask <martzirnask@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry for spamming,
> I actually provided the file name as "c:/tags#.pl" but this gave the
> same effect -- Emacs freezes.
>
> Thanks for help,
> Best,
> MZ
>
> 2011/9/21 Mart Zirnask <martzirnask@gmail.com>:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> Probably an issue not very complicated: when I try to launch an
>> external Perl script ("tags#.pl") from Emacs, providing it with the
>> current buffer name, the editor freezes.
>>
>> I'm on Windows and here's what I have in my .emacs:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ;; Perl tagcloud
>> (global-set-key (kbd "<f2>")
>>                      (lambda ()
>>                        (interactive)
>>                        (shell-command (concat "perl
>> ~/.emacs.d/tags#.pl " buffer-file-name))))
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I'm not a programmer and I started using Emacs for text editing only
>> recently. What's wrong?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> best,
>> Mart Zirnask,
>> from Estonia

Does that script reads any standard input?  To interact with a
subprocess, see comint-mode.

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