Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:09:37 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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>     That distinction is quite blurred in latest Emacs versions.  E.g.,
>     shell-command-to-string might call a process on a remote host and
>     communicate with it via open-network-stream or some such.  There are
>     several interactive commands already that use this feature.
> 
> The cases where their arguments for strictness are strongest
> are the noninteractive ones that don't show the text to a user
> for editing.

I believe the commands that use shell-command-to-string are a good
example of these cases.  That function is frequently used as
infrastructure to query an external program about something, and the
result is then used, at least in some cases, to decide how to proceed.