From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Boettcher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Major usability issue Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:36:24 -0400 Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031060674 11119 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 13:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:44:34 +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 17mDyr-0002tE-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:44:33 +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 17mE0O-0007ju-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:46:08 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!panix!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!llslave.llan.ll.mit.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8cz43t5oecJM7Q9gIcihkIBiAO4= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.34.163.111 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@ll.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: llslave.llan.ll.mit.edu 1031060185 155.34.163.111 (Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:36:25 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:36:25 EDT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104425 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:990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:990 Bruce Korb writes: > 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. I'm sure it is > doable, but it is really important to just be able to ALT-| then > type a command and be able to use a mouse click to capture the text. > I haven't read emacs lisp macros yet in order to reverse-engineer > what has been done; but I shouldn't have to either. :-( M-| still runs shell-command-on-region for me. Maybe this is one of the distros that mucked up the Alt and Meta keys? What does C-h k M-| show you? -- Peter Boettcher MIT Lincoln Laboratory boettcher@ll.mit.edu (781) 981-5275