From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:42:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: read in batch
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~2062
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2b1c016fed45c39758bf162e80c01b54e8b46a4;p=emacs.git

read in batch
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diff --git a/lispref/streams.texi b/lispref/streams.texi
index efd905c9b20..74f9e43e92c 100644
--- a/lispref/streams.texi
+++ b/lispref/streams.texi
@@ -125,7 +125,13 @@ came from''.  In this case, it makes no difference what value
 @code{t} used as a stream means that the input is read from the
 minibuffer.  In fact, the minibuffer is invoked once and the text
 given by the user is made into a string that is then used as the
-input stream.
+input stream.  If Emacs is running in batch mode, standard input is used
+instead of the minibuffer.  For example,
+@example
+(message "%s" (read t))
+@end example
+will read a Lisp expression from standard input and print the result
+to standard output.
 
 @item @code{nil}
 @cindex @code{nil} input stream