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Re: [TeXmacs] extern-exec and "further customization"


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  • From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] extern-exec and "further customization"
  • Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:13:37 +0100

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:46:32AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:26:52PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>
> >> Has "extern-exec" been renamed and not updated in the
> >> documentation? To what? If anybody has some insight...
>
> > As far as calling a plugin from Scheme code
> > is concerned, I would rather say :
> > <<
> > (plugin-eval [name] [sesssion] [command])
> > >>
>
> Yes, this seems to do it. Thanks. TeXmacs doesn't seem to like the
> second thing I tried, though... It doesn't appreciate plugin foo
> telling it
> DATA_BEGIN command:(plugin-eval "foo" "default" "bar") DATA_END
> it seems to go into an infinite loop of issuing bar to plugin foo.

That is not surprising, since your plug-in seems to ask TeXmacs to ask
the *same* plug-in for executing some command, all over the *same* pipe.
This is not reasonable: your plug-in might directly execute the command
instead of passing through TeXmacs.

Best wishes, Joris



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