Re: read-string from standard-input?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Running regression tests with interactive input is not what I want. Is
> there a technique, that read-string takes its input from a stream, like
> standard-input?

I'm not sure I understand.

    % emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message (read-string "hello:"))'

shows that `read-string' does read from stdin already if we're not in an
interactive session.  What am I missing?


        Stefan