Hi all,

By default Emacs in batch mode sends 'message's to stderr.

Is it possible to put a directive in the file loaded with the '-l'
switch, that tells Emacs to send 'message's to stdout instead?

Sebastian

Sebastian Tennant smolny.plus.com> writes:

Why use message if message doesn't do what you want? Use print!
(and princ, terpri, etc).

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It's not my code, and there are a lot of messages in there!

Peter, of course 2>&1 works in a shell, but my guile script calls emacs
directly to avoid the overhead of the shell.

It turns out, guile has good port redirection routines and I'm able to
route stderr programmatically within the script.

Thanks to you both.

Sebastian

Can I hijack the thread to ask if there is a way of suppressing the
"Loading" and related start-up messages when using the
#!/usr/bin/emacs --script
convention?

At present this:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/emacs --script
(princ "Hello World!\n")
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Brendan Halpin writes:

No, you may not ;)

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

Yes, but that's not a solution so much as a workaround.

Indeed. In practice Debian are in charge, but there's nothing to stop me
changing it -- now all I need is to know (i) how to tell at startup if emacs
is invoked with --script and (ii) how to interfere with the site-start.d
process.

Brendan

Brendan Halpin wrote:

Excuse me, I did not follow, but do you need to run site-start.el

I tested this:

C:\test>emacs -Q -batch -l hello.el
Hello World!

Brendan Halpin writes:

Well if there can be no arrangement, then we are at an impasse.

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

Indeed. All I want it to use Emacs as a scripting language to write
little utilities, and that they behave just like utilities written in
Perl or Python.

My thought processes were heading in the direction that the hash-bang
--script option is very new and not yet completely thought through, and
that a long-term solution might lie in hacking the start process.
Perhaps the start process should behave differently when invoked in with
--script. I suspect that completely ignoring the site-start structure
could be suboptimal (if there are site-wide settings that are
non-standard), but it is clearly inappropriate to load lots of
irrelevant files (and not just because of the chatter to STDERR).

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" gmail.com> writes:

No, I'm talking about using it to write script files than be invoked
under the shell (bash etc.):

+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|brendan@wivenhoe:/tmp$ cat hw.el
|#! /usr/bin/emacs --script
|(princ "Hello!\n")
|brendan@wivenhoe:/tmp$ chmod +x hw.el
|brendan@wivenhoe...