How can I send a command to Emacs 24 from VBA in MS Office?

Question

I want to invoke commands from within MS Office application which have a direct effect on my (open) Emacs application, for example

• do a search for the currently selected text in Emacs

I wonder how I can do that. Is there a direct way to send commands to Emacs? I'm running Emacs 24.3.1 on Windows 7 with the server options

;;prevent error message of unsafe server (see http://stackoverflow.com/a/1313577/772434 )
(require 'server)
(and (>= emacs-major-version 23) (defun server-ensure-safe-dir (dir) "Noop" t))
(server-start)
;;(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/org/protocol/")
(require 'org-protocol)

and I'm using org-protocol

Answer 1

You can send command to Emacs (running in server mode) using emacsclient.

For example :

emacsclient --eval "(org-search-view nil """pattern""")"

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If the elisp becomes too complex, you might be better of wrapping it in a file that you can load. For example :

fun.el

(defun my/search (pattern)
  (with-current-buffer "BUFFER-NAME"
     (search-forward pattern)))

command-line

emacsclient --load fun.el --eval '(my/search "PATTERN")'