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: Buffer or string as file input? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:46:35 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393026621 23947 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2014 23:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:50:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 22 00:50:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGzrR-0005Ng-5V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGzrQ-0008Va-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:50:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="18214"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mbIo7Adw3qwGMnEhwcWy8" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+AfcjogOyQQMfehas7hWpcVoGjw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203901 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96170 Archived-At: In article , Jonathon McKitrick 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 ***