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Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt

per.nord...@gmail.com (Nordlöw) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:03:23 UT

Nice1
But I still need to solve this programmatically in a lisp program.
I'll take a look at eshell and see if I can script it using eshell-
functions.
/Nordlöw

Re: Colors through Putty

pocma...@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:30:52 UT

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Colin S. Miller
That's an excellent idea. I have MinGW installed but I have no idea
how to configure it to do that. Any tutorials out there? Do I need to
get something like Xming or is it already distrubuted with MinGW?

Re: Colors through Putty

pocma...@gmail.com (Paulo J. Matos) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:18:17 UT

It says xterm.
Not only emacs doesn't show any colours but even though I can see
colours in the terminal when doing ls or so, if the lines is too long
it start eating the lines above and everything gets very messy.

Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt

thierry.volpia...@gmail.com (Thierry Volpiatto) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:22:48 UT

Hi, if you are an anything user you will find in anything-config.el
sources to manage apt-* from emacs.
[link]

Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt

st...@srevilak.net (Steve Revilak) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:39:43 UT

Using M-! and typing "sudo ls" into the minibuffer, I see the same
error message with Emacs 23.1.1 on OpenSuse. Mac OS X displays a
password prompt in the minibuffer, but the password prompt doesn't
seem to accept focus (emacs 22 and 23).
Try this.
M-x shell
Then run "sudo apt-get install" from the *shell* buffer. You should

Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

ce...@decebal.nl (Cecil Westerhof) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:37:55 UT

I'll try that. I already understood that elisp is 'old' and that clisp
has a lot more possibilities. One thing. Using your script gives:
./dummy.lisp: line 3: format: command not found
./dummy.lisp: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Using 'clisp dummy.lisp' works.
Now I need to learn ELisp and CLisp. ;-]

Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

ce...@decebal.nl (Cecil Westerhof) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:31:27 UT

Okay. I'll look into that. Emacs is more general, because it will be
installed on more systems. But when Common Lisp is a better option, I
should maybe go for it.
By the way. I have been looking into Common Lisp and I understood that
the following is correct:
(list a: 1)
But I get:
*** - READ uit #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: er is geen package met naam "A"

Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:04:31 UT

I must concur. I wrote quite a number of emacs scripts, but eventually,
I switched to Common Lisp, specifically clisp (but other CL
implementations are also usable for scripts), to write my scripts.
Common Lisp allows you to write scripts more easily than emacs lisp.

Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt

michael.albi...@gmx.de (Michael Albinus) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:37:35 UT

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90, I've recently added su and sudo support via Tramp
in eshell. Once you have loaded eshell via "M-x eshell", you can do the
following (for example):
~ $ cd /etc
/etc $ sudo find-file shadow
It works even on remote hosts:
~ $ cd /ssh:otherhost:/etc
/ssh:user@otherhost:/etc $ sudo find-file shadow

Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

tliko...@iki.fi (Teemu Likonen) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:18:04 UT

I suggest using some Common Lisp implementation instead. They are more
general-purpose Lisp dialects I like CLISP.
#!/usr/bin/clisp
(format *query-io* "Type something: ")

Stack overflow in regexp matcher

akai...@visi.com (akaiser@visi.com) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:15:31 UT

A function of mine gets "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" on a certain
file using the regexp
"^< \$.+].+=|\$"
The file is a single line of about 73000 characters, but the regexp matches
ending at character 56.
Is this a bug? And if not, why not?
djc

Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

s...@gnu.org (Sam Steingold) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:24:10 UT

I use clisp for all scripting, interactive and not.
Common Lisp is more powerful than Emacs Lisp and clisp is faster than emacs.
yes. you do not need any evals.
you put your function into a file, byte-compile the file, and then load the
file and call the function from the command line.

Using Emacs Lisp for script writing

ce...@decebal.nl (Cecil Westerhof) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:32:07 UT

I already use 'emacs -batch' for scripting where no user input is used,
but I would like to use it also for interactive scripting. Until now I
did not find any usable information about this. Anybody using Emacs for
interactive scripts?
Also I use three evals. One to define the function, one to compile it

Re: Colors through Putty

no-spam-thank-...@csmiller.demon.co.uk (Colin S. Miller) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:10:49 UT

Is it possible to install an xserver on your windows box? (MinGW and Cygwin are both open source;
there are others, some might even been free-beer).
This will allow emacs to open a full display on your windows machine.
HTH,
Colin S. Miller

Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt

per.nord...@gmail.com (Nordlöw) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:59:19 UT

What I really want to do is to spawn an install using apt-get install
from within emacs.
/Nordlöw