Re: Load file and return evaluation result (instead of t)?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 10/9/13 1:25 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> the manual says
>
>   ,----------------------------------------------
>   | load returns t if the file loads successfully
>   `----------------------------------------------
>
> but I would rather like to write a (big) Elisp expression into a file,
> load the file, and get the expression's return value instead of just
> 't'.
>
> Something like
>
> ,------------------------------
> | (eval-buffer (find-file ...))
> `------------------------------
>
> does not do the job either.

(eval (read (find-file-noselect "/my/file.el")))

> Did I overlook the simple and canonical way to do this?
> This is mainly to avoid that shell commands like
>
> ,-------------------------------------------------------------
> | $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "( ... elisp expressions ...)"
> `-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> become too long, and thus replace them with something like:
>
> ,-------------------------------------------------------------
> | $ emacsclient -s my-server -e "(load-file \"/my/file.el\")"
> `-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> where /my/file.el contains those elisp expressions.

Of course, (eval-buffer (find-file-noselect "/my/file.el")) works in this
context as well, because the result of the -e EXPRESSION is discarded anyway.

Which leads back to emacsclient -l "/my/file.el"

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA