From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Piping output to a buffer Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:35:20 -0500 Organization: Symantec Message-ID: References: <877igtho8a.fsf@celephais.home.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203990368 12188 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 01:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:46:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 02:46:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTots-0003WO-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:46:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTotN-0004GN-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:46:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:35:20 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b2 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.108.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-TSWcL1PZsNWakSCAA6m50oKWodOlxEZg4A4bqqzxJfnmKGo6lu9R7Y0VYsEEVT2pbutO1F/VnIwyvtG!kTjWO9kQKrwNINV13wOgKI5OLakv73rHeFmInC67OlWAOz9TV14e950cSbDgO8xUVMg712fN1ZCI!5yJFR1zJ9lW1jwXgPixlDYeyRMCFRKSyTcK4pKhlnA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156468 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:37:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51858 Archived-At: In article <877igtho8a.fsf@celephais.home.net>, cothrige wrote: > I have noticed that in vim one can invoke an external command and pipe > the output into the current buffer via the `!!` or `:r!` commands. > While I have not made a habit of really using this command in vim, as I > have also not made a habit of using vim, I did realize that this could > be a really useful capability. So, how might one do this in emacs? C-u M-! -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***