Re: emacsclient in elisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 09:21:35 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: mail@daniel-mendler.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-05-20 18:11]:
> > > Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 17:31:55 +0300
> > > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > > Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> > >  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > > 
> > > It would be useful to have Emacs that can read stdin. 
> > 
> > Emacs already is capable of doing that, see the node "Input Streams"
> > in the ELisp manual.
> 
> emacs -Q -l process-org.el -l ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20201216/org-autoloads.el 
> my-file.org --batch -f org-mode -f process-org
> 
> I have tried this way, it seem to be waiting for lines, but then it becomes 
> error. I was expecting that `read-string' gets its stream reading. Maybe it 
> works, I am not sure. But `read' cannot read strings, it is for expressions, 
> the `read' is the only function described to receive input streams in that 
> section of manual.

Use read-from-minibuffer, it can read anything.