inserting a file

inserting a file

[Baloff]

C-x i filename
what about inserting a command output
say you are writing a post, or in the scratch buffer and want to type
the output of a shell command. like $ls or whatever.

thanks

Re: inserting a file

[Jesper Harder]

Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:

> C-x i filename what about inserting a command output say you are
> writing a post, or in the scratch buffer and want to type the output
> of a shell command. like $ls or whatever.

Use `C-u M-! ls'

Re: inserting a file

[Christian Plate]

Baloff <washdc@wash.edu> writes:
> what about inserting a command output say you are writing a post, or
> in the scratch buffer and want to type the output of a shell
> command. like $ls or whatever.

I'm quoting from the info-manual:

,----
|    A numeric argument, as in `M-1 M-!', says to insert terminal output
| into the current buffer instead of a separate buffer.  It puts point
| before the output, and sets the mark after the output.  For instance,
| `M-1 M-! gunzip < foo.gz <RET>' would insert the uncompressed
| equivalent of `foo.gz' into the current buffer.
`----

For more details have a look in info: Emacs->Shell->Single Shell

Regards, Christian

Re: inserting a file

[Jens Kubieziel]

* Baloff schrieb am 2005-08-07:
> what about inserting a command output
> say you are writing a post, or in the scratch buffer and want to type
> the output of a shell command. like $ls or whatever.

C-u M-! RET

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Re: inserting a file

[Baloff]

Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> * Baloff schrieb am 2005-08-07:
> 
>>what about inserting a command output
>>say you are writing a post, or in the scratch buffer and want to type
>>the output of a shell command. like $ls or whatever.
> 
> 
> C-u M-! RET
> 
both
C-u M-!  and
M-1 M-!
work, now, why is the waste binding, why not save one for something else?

thanks

Re: inserting a file

[Neon Absentius]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:34:56AM -0700, Baloff wrote:
> both
> C-u M-!  and
> M-1 M-!
> work, now, why is the waste binding, why not save one for something else?

There is only one binding. M-! is bound to the command "shell-command".
M-1 and C-u supply prefix arguments. M-1 supplies the numerical
agument "1" to the command, while "C-u" supplies the "universal
argument". It just happens that all non-nil arguments have the same 
result for this funtion, so for example M-0 would also work. 

,----[ C-h k M-! ]
| M-! runs the command shell-command
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| It is bound to M-!.
| (shell-command command &optional output-buffer error-buffer)
| 
| Execute string command in inferior shell; display output, if any.
| With prefix argument, insert the command's output at point.
`----

Here is the info node about prefix arguments:

(info "(elisp)Prefix Command Arguments")

> 
> thanks

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Re: inserting a file

[Kevin Rodgers]

Baloff wrote:
> C-x i filename
> what about inserting a command output
> say you are writing a post, or in the scratch buffer and want to type
> the output of a shell command. like $ls or whatever.

I find it inconvenient that there's no default binding for
insert-buffer, so I've got this in my .emacs:

(global-set-key "\C-xI" 'insert-buffer)

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Kevin Rodgers