Re: How to reliably edit a file from within Emacs Lisp and return a string?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:55:58 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > M-x shell
> > 
> > § emacsclient "file"
> > 
> > it works here inside of M-x shell where it says "Waiting for
> > Emacs..."
> > 
> > So I can launch emacsclient from shell within Emacs with waiting
> > stage.
> 
> Yes, but this won't get you anywhere past the waiting stage, because
> there's no Emacs server that can serve the emacsclient's request.

Actually, you know what: it will work.  So if you insist on doing it
via emacsclient, go ahead and do it via the shell buffer.