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From: doom@kzsu.stanford.edu (Joe Brenner) Subject: using emacs non-interactively Date: 17 Dec 2000 14:03:11 GMT Can someone point me at some information on how to use the emacs '-batch' feature? There are examples in the texinfo docs on how to use it to edit files, but I'd also like to get it to read stdin and output to stdout. And for that matter, even my attempts at using it to modify files is running into trouble, e.g. this: emacs some.txt -batch -f mark-whole-buffer -f fill-region -f save-buffer Produces some strange error messages: Mark set Mark set Wrong number of arguments: #[(from to &optional justify nosqueeze to-eop) > [followed by a lot of high-byte junk]. Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!xfer10.netnews.com!netnews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsgate.duke.edu!usenet From: Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 17 Dec 2000 13:46:09 -0500 Organization: Duke University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: wojo.dulug.duke.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Face: *A{%->08frcej]'gm;C(iI>,gA^(wV.7lN.*QR(?p)z[Ea]ay5$%7}^<oy(T\ PsC$9Oq5GO_Bcl'pq%J:)5:^FR"*0!{+J5@=tY(V?\C|"F X-Home-Page: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~thunder/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.93 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53501 * "Joe" == Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> writes: Joe> emacs some.txt -batch -f mark-whole-buffer -f fill-region -f Joe> save-buffer Shouldn't that be: emacs -batch -f [...] file.txt ? Also, is it possible to give several '-f' arguments? You may have to define a function and call that instead. -Dan -- Dan Mills, Duke Class of 2000 -o) email: danmills(at)sandmill(dot)org /\\ -----------------------------------\ _\_v Damn Sill.. Sand Mill? All Minds! |_____ Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!uchinews!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 09:20:43 -0700 Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/ Lines: 11 Message-ID: <m3n1dtem5g.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brutt.dsl.xmission.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.xmission.com 977156444 17977 166.70.87.126 (18 Dec 2000 16:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2000 16:20:44 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53565 Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes: > Also, is it possible to give several '-f' arguments? yes this is possible. what i haven't figured out is how to give the command itself arguments. I always get defeated by shell+elisp quoting if I try the form --eval "(func arg1 arg2)". Benjamin Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsgate.duke.edu!usenet From: Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 11:36:51 -0500 Organization: Duke University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <86u281r8ik.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3n1dtem5g.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wojo.dulug.duke.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Face: *A{%->08frcej]'gm;C(iI>,gA^(wV.7lN.*QR(?p)z[Ea]ay5$%7}^<oy(T\ PsC$9Oq5GO_Bcl'pq%J:)5:^FR"*0!{+J5@=tY(V?\C|"F X-Home-Page: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~thunder/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.93 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53569 * "Benjamin" == Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> writes: Benjamin> form --eval "(func arg1 arg2)". I do something like this for popping up new windows with gnuserv. Like: gnudoit "(make-frame-on-display \"$DISPLAY\")" (got that line from someone in here). If you don't care about variable substitution, you can do: gnudoit '(make-frame-on-display "localhost:0")' Which is a little nicer. One of those two examples should work for you.. -Dan -- Dan Mills, Duke Class of 2000 -o) email: danmills(at)sandmill(dot)org /\\ -----------------------------------\ _\_v Damn Sill.. Sand Mill? All Minds! |_____ Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 09:59:55 -0700 Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/ Lines: 12 Message-ID: <m3elz5ekc4.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3n1dtem5g.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> <86u281r8ik.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brutt.dsl.xmission.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.xmission.com 977158795 18636 166.70.87.126 (18 Dec 2000 16:59:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2000 16:59:55 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53572 Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes: > gnudoit "(make-frame-on-display \"$DISPLAY\")" Hmm...I don't have the gnuserv package. Anyone get the --eval quoting to work with something like emacs --eval '(message "did the command line eval thing")' I always get "End of file during parsing" Benjamin Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Suvrit Sra <suvrit@cs.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Computer Sciences, University of Texas Lines: 10 === From: Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 11:29:59 -0700 Suvrit Sra <suvrit@cs.utexas.edu> writes: > >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> writes: > > Benjamin> emacs --eval '(message "did the command line eval thing")' > > Benjamin> I always get "End of file during parsing" > > I guess your .emacs might be missing some quote mark or some > parenthesis...because this works for me. Interesting. Running it with emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(message "blah blah") works on Gnu Emacs for AIX, Linux, solaris, etc. but chokes on NTEmacs. So it must be an NTEmacs port thing. Thanks for helping me narrow it down. Off to NTEmacs mailing list archives, and possibly NTEmacs bug reports.... Benjamin Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: thi <ttn@glug.org> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 10:51:32 -0800 Organization: sometimes Lines: 12 Message-ID: <y16bsu9o957.fsf@glug.org> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3n1dtem5g.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> <86u281r8ik.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3elz5ekc4.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell4.ba.best.com X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 977165493 69136 206.184.139.135 (18 Dec 2000 18:51:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@best.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2000 18:51:33 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53583 Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> writes: > emacs --eval '(message "did the command line eval thing")' > > I always get "End of file during parsing" if that is the complete command line, most likely your site init file is fubar. try w/ emacs --batch --no-site-file --eval thi Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.ycc.yale.edu!tequila.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+comp.emacs/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 18 Dec 2000 14:32:19 -0500 Organization: Yale University Lines: 18 === From: Edric M Ellis <eellis@mathworks.co.uk> Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 19 Dec 2000 08:15:13 +0000 Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> writes: > Suvrit Sra <suvrit@cs.utexas.edu> writes: > > emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(message "blah blah") > > works on Gnu Emacs for AIX, Linux, solaris, etc. but chokes on > NTEmacs. So it must be an NTEmacs port thing. Actually, I think it's a NT shell quoting rules thing. The following line works fine from a cygwin shell: $ gnudoit '(message "Hello from Cygwin")' But, this fails from a standard NT command window. To get it to work there, you need this: C:\>gnudoit "(message \"Hello from NT\")" Edric. -- Edric M Ellis The MathWorks, Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 1223 423 200 Ext: 218 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 423 289 Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!xmission!nnrp.xmission!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 19 Dec 2000 09:00:41 -0700 Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/ Lines: 7 Message-ID: <m3ofy8v1sm.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> References: <91ih2v$a5$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <8666kiubri.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3n1dtem5g.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> <86u281r8ik.fsf@wojo.dulug.duke.edu> <m3elz5ekc4.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> <91lhgp$qrd$1@news.cs.utexas.edu> <m37l4xy448.fsf@brutt.dsl.xmission.com> <5lbsu9r0e4.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brutt.dsl.xmission.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.xmission.com 977241641 15004 166.70.87.126 (19 Dec 2000 16:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2000 16:00:41 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.emacs:53649 "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+comp.emacs/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes: > and of course, the '(message is just nonsensical. can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean by this. Benjamin Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.uni-dortmund.de!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!news From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 19 Dec 2000 21:21:09 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Lines: 37 === From: Benjamin Rutt <brutt@bloomington.in.us> Subject: Re: using emacs non-interactively Date: 19 Dec 2000 14:10:44 -0700 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro