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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sending marked text to external program?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:13:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skyt9ql2.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2008.03.14.16.00.10.284080@web.de

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:00:10 +0100, Uwe Scholz <nurfuernews@web.de> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I wondered if it is possible to mark a peace of text or a hole line end
> send it to an external programm, for example "boxes", and include the
> output in the active buffer (or maybe a new one).
>
> Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

`C-u M-|' runs `shell-command-on-region'.

If you use M-| without a prefix argument, it shows the output of the
external filter command in a new buffer.  If you run `C-u M-|', then the
output of the filter command replaces the region in the current buffer.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14 16:00 Sending marked text to external program? Uwe Scholz
2008-03-14 16:58 ` Brendan Halpin
2008-03-14 17:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2008-03-19  1:00 ` Xavier Maillard

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