From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Major usability issue Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 21:12:53 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031088272 12295 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 21:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mL9z-0003CB-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 23:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mLBW-0001hg-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:26:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Trace: +rnM+leMet46CHGN4PsYXB6CCfWC5RrT8FlPmsQT7gTdpuA9zssk9R9xWewMvfpodTJA8Tjoabau!dR6f/ZbDJw2+jhtvNnClkZq85YiEDM4DW+e7VFGuCnV9q3XRtKaSgiobBLN6RPwGe8syZDXp58Vc!3M476ziMDtJY9w== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 21:12:53 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104454 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1017 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1017 In article , Bruce Korb wrote: >Kai Großjohann wrote: > >> > For years I have captured the output of a shell command and inserted >> > it into my document. The latest distributions of Linux now carry a >> > version of emacs that makes doing that non-obvious. > >> See the document on shell-command-on-region to see how to change it: > >This is a behavioral change not listed in the news. What change? > >> /---- >> | If the command generates output, the output may be displayed >> | in the echo area or in a buffer. >> | If the output is short enough to display in the echo area >> | (determined by the variable `max-mini-window-height' if >> | `resize-mini-windows' is non-nil), it is shown there. Otherwise >> | it is displayed in the buffer `*Shell Command Output*'. The output >> | is available in that buffer in both cases. >> \---- >> >> Does this help? > >It explains where the text got to. It's been doing it this way for quite some time. I still use 20.7 and it performs this heuristic. > Thanks! Now I have to >set up a macro to pull that text into the current buffer. Giving it a numeric argument tells it to insert the output in the current buffer. M-! inserts it at the point, M-| replaces the region with the result. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.