* Buffer or string as file input?
@ 2014-02-21 20:05 Jonathon McKitrick
2014-02-21 23:46 ` Barry Margolin
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From: Jonathon McKitrick @ 2014-02-21 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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?
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* Re: Buffer or string as file input?
2014-02-21 20:05 Buffer or string as file input? Jonathon McKitrick
@ 2014-02-21 23:46 ` Barry Margolin
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From: Barry Margolin @ 2014-02-21 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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