Re: ns-do-applescript

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I have never heard of "osascript".  What is that?  What systems
> support it?  Does it exist on GNU/Linux?

It's only present in macOS.

> Basically, what are the differences that make it better to use
> osascript than applescript?

I think that binary _is_ Apple's proprietary AppleScript interpreter,
but using it in a subprocess to retrieve only contacts data (which is
already possible on free systems) must be more acceptable than Emacs
including a C primitive to do the same thing.