Re: Read from stdin in non-batch mode

[Thorsten Jolitz]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> There's no stdin, because that's where the keys you're typing
> interactively are coming from, normally.
>
> Now, on linux, the program could use /dev/tty for interactive terminal
> I/O instead of /dev/stdin, so you could both read a stdin file and have
> terminal interaction.  But this is specific to linux (AFAIK).
>
> Of course, with X, the keys come from the the X server instead of the
> terminal, so again, stdin would be free for an input stream.
>
> But this would require a special case, compared to running emacs in a
> terminal on a non linux system.  I guess you will have to patch emacs to
> get it.

Ok, thanks, I just wanted to make sure I don't miss the obvious (solution)
here. In this case I rather use a temporary buffer as input stream than
patching Emacs. 

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cheers,
Thorsten