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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 16:39:36 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:53:18 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > In general, one should avoid strings in Emacs Lisp, because buffer
> > memory is handled much more efficiently than string memory.
>
> I understand the concept, not at all how to practically run a system
> command and receive it as a string.
Why do you need a string? The string is a means to an end, right?
What is that end?
> > buffer-substring?
>
> Because none of `buffer-substring' nor `buffer-string' can specify the
> buffer name then I have to switch temporarily to other buffer, get
> string with `buffer-string' and return back. I was thinking there is
> some function doing that straight, like (buffer-string BUFFER), but I
> don't find such.
I suggest to look up with-current-buffer and with-temp-buffer.
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, Jean Louis, 2021/04/09
- Re: Maybe we can improve this function call-process-to-string?, tomas, 2021/04/09