From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31062 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Python Emacs (was Re: The .. rule) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 05:22:02 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20000518122233.4BDDFD051E@mailhost.sclp.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167514 11900 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:31:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B9FD051E for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 08:22:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB12667; Thu, 18 May 2000 07:22:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 18 May 2000 07:22:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA15793 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 07:22:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail3.teleport.com (mail3.teleport.com [192.108.254.31]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BDDFD051E for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 08:22:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 15107 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 12:20:02 -0000 Original-Received: from ip216-26-43-114.dsl.du.teleport.com (HELO teleport.com) (216.26.43.114) by mail3.teleport.com with SMTP; 18 May 2000 12:20:02 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-reply-to: on 17 May 2000 23:28:02 PDT. Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31062 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz): > Well, there's already a Perl-embedded-in-Emacs available, so you > could just try it. :) It's been in the CPAN for quite a while, > and recently updated to support 5.6. > > See scary. it doesn't do anything special for buffers. if you want to manipulate a buffer in perl, you either have to call the lisp routines, or use buffer-string to convert the buffer to a string that perl can use, which is ... icky. but what worries me more is I'm not clear on how safe the wedding is. like, I don't know if things work right if you 'die' out of a perl function called from a lisp function called from a perl function. and the intertwined garbage collection is a mess. --