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Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function |
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Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:29:09 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.7022.1407855404.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could the next version of Emacs / elisp expose `exec` as a built-in elisp
> function?
Isn't this pretty much what start-process does?
>
> The Unix `exec` semantic is useful for Cask and other Emacs-related
> programs, but is currently not accessible via elisp. If it were, elisp
> programs could, for example, begin an Emacs editing session even though the
> elisp program itself was originally run using emacs.
I can't figure out what you're talking about here.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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