Re: redirect stdout to emacs scratch

[Chetan <Chetan.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net>]

pagod <dvergnaud@yahoo.com> writes:

> hi everyone!
>
> this is probably a very easy question (there has to be a way!), but i
> haven't been able to find the answer, so i'm turning to this forum, hoping
> someone can give me a hint!
>
> what i want to do is very simple: i want to be able to redirect the stdout
> of any program on the command line into emacs' scratch buffer -- the way it
> works with less or joe or whatever. i want to do it with emacs because i'm
> used to using it and i need syntax coloring, but when i try it i get the
> message "standard input is not a tty". then what is it? the way i've tried
> it is quite the usual way:
>
> pagod> echo "hello, world" | emacs
> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>
> my emacs is aliased to "emacs -nw" because i'm in a terminal, so the option
> is assumed by default anyway. i'm using the no-window version of emacs
> because i run it from within an ssh session running zsh on a linux server,
> connecting using putty from a windows workstation. emacs version is 22.2.1,
> running in a SuSE 11.0.
>
> it'd be great if someone could help me do that!
>
> thx a lot
>
> David

Do you really need to do it this way? You can run it quite simply
within the eshell prompt inside emacs.
M-x eshell
eshell$ echo "foo" >> #<buffer *scratch*>
eshell$ myprog >> #<buffer *scratch*>
echell$ echo "bar" >> #<buffer *scratch*>