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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 16:36:54 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.7068.1407955728.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I'm not familiar with cask, but usually if you run something within
Emacs, and it wants you to edit something, you set EDITOR=emacsclient so
that it goes back to the original Emacs instance. You don't need to
start a new Emacs instance.
And that still doesn't explain why you would want to kill the original
Emacs instance when running cask.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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