Re: Executing Emacs Lisp through AppleScript on Mac OS X?

[David Reitter]

On 18 Dec 2005, at 03:54, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> (defun mac-ae-do-lisp (event)
>   (interactive "e")
>   (eval (car (read-from-string (mac-ae-text (mac-event-ae event))))))


Something like that is definitely an interesting functionality, but I  
wouldn't want to see it outside of a local installation, i.e. in  
Emacs, simply for security reasons. With such an event, any  
application can practically attain all rights that the Emacs process  
has and execute pretty much anything.

Some support for common functions would be nice, though.
For example, I stumbled over "Open Document"'s inability to find new  
files, i.e. only existing files can be opened.

Because the system's "open" command cannot pass arbitrary parameters  
either, I don't see a way to get (a running) Emacs to find a file (as  
opposed to opening an existing one) from external.