Re: shell-CLI for Emacs

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
() Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:42:50 +0200

   But that's getting tedious if it has to be done for a lot of
   functions...

Maybe you can play w/ ‘call-interactively’ and ‘unread-command-events’.
Split the line as before but instead of ‘apply’ing the command to the
args, push the args (character by character, in reverse order) onto
‘unread-command-events’, preceding each arg (set) with ‘C-j’ (newline).
Here's a test command:

 (defun zow (string symbol number)
   (interactive "sString: \nSSymbol: \nnNumber: ")
   (message "got: %S" (list string symbol number)))

Invoked like:

 zow not quite 42

it should display:

 got: ("not" quite 42)

in the echo area.  Of course, this technique loses w/ certain (stealthy)
‘interactive’ specs, regions, stateful (history var) defaults, args that
include a space, etc, but it might be fun to try, anyway.  That's the
primary benefit of all DWIM hacking, after all, for both you and Emacs!

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