Re: kill-emacs and returning values

[Mathias Megyei]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 14:51 +0100, Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Okay, sounds promising. I did a small test:
> 
>   $ cat ke.el
>   ;; Interactive stuff goes here...
> 
>   ;; In the end, kill emacs and return a value to the script running in
>   ;; the shell
>   (kill-emacs "This is the return value.")
> 
Does it work for your purpose if you change the last line
to:

 (kill-emacs "returnvalue='This is the return value.'")

$ emacs -Q -nw -l ke.el    
returnvalue='This is the return value.'

$ echo $returnvalue
This is the return value.

Best Regards,

Mathias