From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:45:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnho1bpi.49k.tim@bart.johnson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3fx4vmg8b.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de
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!
--
Tim
tim@johnsons-web.com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-21 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-21 2:45 Inserting output from a program into a buffer Tim Johnson
2010-02-21 3:15 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-02-21 4:45 ` Tim Johnson [this message]
2010-02-21 5:02 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <slrnho2o6e.49k.tim@bart.johnson.com>
[not found] ` <87zl324774.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>
2010-02-22 0:45 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 1:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-22 4:45 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 9:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-22 19:44 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 23:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-23 0:44 ` Tim Johnson
2010-02-22 23:06 ` jpkotta
2010-02-22 7:22 ` Tim X
2010-02-21 6:28 ` tomas
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