From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:28:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100221062813.GA26668@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnho1bpi.49k.tim@bart.johnson.com>
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:45:08PM -0600, Tim Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-02-21, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> > Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> >
> >> emacs 22.3.1 on slack 13.0/32-bit
> >
> >> Consider the following text:
[...]
> > Not exactly what you require, but
> > C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET will /replace/ the re-
> > gion with the output of the shell-command operated on the
> > original region.
> Hi Tim:
> Thanks for the reply. I had found that command, but unfortunately
> replacing the region is the last thing I want to do. The end game is a
> "time card", as you might guess from the data structure and the data
> structure needs to remain intact.
> Thanks Again!
But shell-command-on-region has an optional parameter called REPLACE.
This might be what you are looking for (you'll need to wrap the call,
REPLACE is set to t on interactive calls, though).
Regards
- -- tomás
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-21 2:45 Inserting output from a program into a buffer Tim Johnson
2010-02-21 3:15 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-02-21 4:45 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-21 5:02 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <slrnho2o6e.49k.tim@bart.johnson.com>
[not found] ` <87zl324774.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>
2010-02-22 0:45 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 1:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-22 4:45 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 9:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-22 19:44 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 23:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-23 0:44 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 23:06 ` jpkotta
2010-02-22 7:22 ` Tim X
2010-02-21 6:28 ` tomas [this message]
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