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Re: How to I read from the stdin input stream from inside Emacs?
From: |
John Mastro |
Subject: |
Re: How to I read from the stdin input stream from inside Emacs? |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:37:47 -0800 |
> I have the following command in my Makefile:
>
> foo:
> javac *.java |& emacs --batch --load sjs-error.el --funcall doit
>
> I have tried the following code but it doesn't work:
>
> (defun doit ()
> (while (input-pending-p)
> (message (format "input %s" last-input-event))))
>
> I also tried the following code but it doesn't work:
>
> (defun doit ()
> (while (input-pending-p)
> (message (read-key-sequence))))
>
> Please could one of you braniacs come up with some code that works!
You could use something like this:
(defun doit ()
(let (line)
(while (setq line (read-from-minibuffer ""))
(message "input: %s" line))))
In batch mode, Emacs essentially treats stdin as minibuffer input.
--
john