From: lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Subject: inserting output of shell-command (was: Major usability issue)
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 21:04:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkbs7gdupo.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1030996683.19870.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bruce Korb 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. 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. :-(
/----[ C-h k M-! ]
| M-! runs the command shell-command
| which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)
|
| Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
| With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND's output at point.
| [...]
\----
So you probably want to be typing something like C-1 M-! at the
correct point in your buffer.
--
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-02 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1030996683.19870.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-02 20:04 ` lawrence mitchell [this message]
2002-09-02 20:33 ` inserting output of shell-command (was: Major usability issue) Lute Kamstra
2002-09-03 10:22 ` Major usability issue Kai Großjohann
2002-09-03 20:52 ` Bruce Korb
[not found] ` <mailman.1031086444.5149.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-03 21:12 ` Barry Margolin
2002-09-03 22:46 ` Bruce Korb
2002-09-04 1:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-03 22:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-03 13:36 ` Peter Boettcher
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