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Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Feature request: Expose system `exec` as a built-in elisp function |
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Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:22:42 +0200 |
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Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> writes:
> One example of the worthiness of exec is cask, an
> Emacs package manager that sometimes wants to fork
> out to an emacs instance, for editing text files.
It seems to me that either you do the job within the
process, or you start a new process to do it.
Are you saying, you want to start a new process, then
have the old process replaced by that process?
If so, why?
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