Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Matthew.Pettis]

Hi,

Want to learn Emacs to have a powerful editor on *nix...

I code perl scripts, and I want to find out how to submit a whole
buffer (with a shebang at top) to the shell and capture the output
somewhere in Emacs -- probably the *command shell* window, which I
know nothing about other than the name.

Can someone point me in the right direction?  Googling hasn't helped
me here...

tia,
Matt

Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com" <Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:33:28 -0800 (PST)
> 
> I code perl scripts, and I want to find out how to submit a whole
> buffer (with a shebang at top) to the shell and capture the output
> somewhere in Emacs -- probably the *command shell* window, which I
> know nothing about other than the name.

You want "M-|".  Invoke Perl in a way that makes it read the script
from its standard input.

Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Daniel Pittman]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com" <Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:33:28 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> I code perl scripts, and I want to find out how to submit a whole
>> buffer (with a shebang at top) to the shell and capture the output
>> somewhere in Emacs -- probably the *command shell* window, which I
>> know nothing about other than the name.
>
> You want "M-|".  Invoke Perl in a way that makes it read the script
> from its standard input.

...alternately, after saving the script to disk, one of:

  M-x compile perl ./myscript.pl
  M-! perl ./myscript.pl

Those might do what you want.

Regards,
        Daniel
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Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Matthew.Pettis]

Thanks All,

Helpful stuff... I cross-posted this at perlmonks.org, and got some
good responses there, too... for reference:

http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=657525

thanks,
matt

On Dec 17, 8:33 am, "Matthew.Pet...@gmail.com"
<Matthew.Pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Want to learn Emacs to have a powerful editor on *nix...
>
> I code perl scripts, and I want to find out how to submit a whole
> buffer (with a shebang at top) to the shell and capture the output
> somewhere in Emacs -- probably the *command shell* window, which I
> know nothing about other than the name.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?  Googling hasn't helped
> me here...
>
> tia,
> Matt

Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Xavier Maillard]

   Can someone point me in the right direction?  Googling hasn't helped
   me here...

There is something called eev-mode (just google for it). It does
this and even more. It looks complex at first, but once mastered,
it is of great help for all repetitive shell tasks.

Sadly it is not part of GNU Emacs, I wish it was !

	Xavier
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Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Joel J. Adamson]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    Can someone point me in the right direction?  Googling hasn't helped
>    me here...
>
> There is something called eev-mode (just google for it). It does
> this and even more. It looks complex at first, but once mastered,
> it is of great help for all repetitive shell tasks.

Do you want shell-command-on-buffer?

Joel

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