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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer or string as file input?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:46:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-4003D4.18463521022014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e6be9402-c808-4e60-af58-6d7ee6d7ed47@googlegroups.com

In article <e6be9402-c808-4e60-af58-6d7ee6d7ed47@googlegroups.com>,
 Jonathon McKitrick <jmckitrick@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to call CALL-PROCESS but the stdin argument will be a string I am 
> constructing.  I would prefer to avoid writing that to a file just to read it 
> into the command.
> 
> Is there a way to use a buffer or string as a file input, like a stream?

call-process-region uses a region in the current buffer as stdin for the 
process.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 23:46 UTC|newest]

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2014-02-21 20:05 Buffer or string as file input? Jonathon McKitrick
2014-02-21 23:46 ` Barry Margolin [this message]

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