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Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string? |
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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:55:18 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:40:17 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
>
> There is function `shell-command-to-string' which is very handy. But
> when there are problems with quoting
Problems that shell-quote-argument doesn't solve? If so, can you show
those problems?
> it is better to use
> `call-process'. Yet there is no function `call-process-to-string',
> which I have made as below.
Why do you need such a command? Emacs can copy text between buffers,
so you don't need to cons a string to insert it into another buffer.
In general, one should avoid strings in Emacs Lisp, because buffer
memory is handled much more efficiently than string memory.
> Is there maybe some other function that can give me string from
> buffer?
buffer-substring?
- Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Arthur Miller, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/08
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Arthur Miller, 2021/04/08