Writing to an open buffer from shell?

Writing to an open buffer from shell?

[Peter Neumann]

Is there a way to write additional informations from a shell into an 
already opened buffer?

Whenever I start my Windowmanager I start Emacs useing it during the day 
for all kinds of work. Aside of codeing I write down my notes and memos 
in a special (today calles)buffer. As I am collecting all kinds of text
in this buffer, I would like to have it filled and accessible from 
"everywhere".

I had just looked if emacsclient could be helpfull but it seems not
to be appropiate, or is it?

thank you for your attention

and your help in advance

Peter
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Re: Writing to an open buffer from shell?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Peter Neumann wrote:

> Is there a way to write additional informations from a shell into an 
> already opened buffer?

I hope I understood what you are looking for.  The shell-command function 
accepts optional arguments that cause Emacs to redirect the command's
output into a buffer you name.  

Re: Writing to an open buffer from shell?

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Neumann <rast24@lycos.com> writes:

> Whenever I start my Windowmanager I start Emacs useing it during the
> day for all kinds of work. Aside of codeing I write down my notes and
> memos in a special (today calles)buffer. As I am collecting all kinds
> of text
> in this buffer, I would like to have it filled and accessible from
> "everywhere".

In the CVS version of Emacs, emacsclient supports the --eval argument
which allows you to eval arbitrary Lisp code, including, say 

    (save-excursion
      (set-buffer "memo")
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (insert "SOME TEXT GOES HERE\n"))

There is also the gnuserv package which contains the gnudoit program
which can do the same.
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