Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <slrnho1bpi.49k.tim@bart.johnson.com>,
 Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:

> On 2010-02-21, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> > Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> >
> >> emacs 22.3.1 on slack 13.0/32-bit
> >
> >> Consider the following text:
> >
> >> [[10:00 11:27][14:43 14:57]] ;; ^output here
> >
> >> Given that I have selected:
> >> "[[10:00 11:27][14:43 14:57]]"
> >> as a region, I would like to send that region to an external application
> >> and insert the output as indicated.
> >
> >> I've recently started using emacs again after several years, and have in
> >> the past written quite a few elisp functions and keybindings for my own
> >> use. The external application has already been written, I've used it
> >> with vim and "r !<shell command>" for years.
> >
> >> References to relevant and related elisp functions and scripts would
> >> probably be sufficient, however, if someone has done this already - why
> >> re-invent the wheel?
> >
> > Not exactly what you require, but
> > C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET will /replace/ the re-
> > gion with the output of the shell-command operated on the
> > original region.
>   Hi Tim: 
> 	Thanks for the reply. I had found that command, but unfortunately
> 	replacing the region is the last thing I want to do. The end game is a
> 	"time card", as you might guess from the data structure and the data
> 	structure needs to remain intact.
> 	Thanks Again!

If you use it without the C-u modifier, the output will be put in the 
*Shell Output* buffer.  You could use M-x insert-buffer to copy the 
output into the current buffer.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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