Re: Run Shell Command on Buffer

[scame@fastmail.fm]

Wow, "occur" totally RULES! That's even more than I wanted to achieve!
:) Thanks!
The problem how to run an arbitrary shell command on the current file --
be it via the text in the buffer or via the filename -- remains. Any
ideas on that?

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:32:16 -0500, "Barry Margolin"
<barmar@alum.mit.edu> said:
> In article <mailman.3545.1169683280.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  super-nub <scame@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pete,
> > 
> > for example I want to execute `grep' on my buffer/file to get a survey of the 
> > section headings in my document (that I keep in a special format for this 
> > purpose), e.g.:
> > 
> > $ egrep '^\s*-[[:upper:]]+' myfile
> > $ -INTRODUCTION
> > $     -BLA BLA
> > $     -BLA 2
> > $ -MAIN PART
> > $     -MISCELLANEOUS
> > $         -ETC BLA BLA
> > 
> > shell-command-on-region turned out to be a bit impractical, because I lose my 
> > current position in the document, as the cursor jumps to the beginning when 
> > running shell-command-on-region. I guess I would have to write a LISP macro 
> > to fix that...!?
> 
> The mark-whole-buffer command (C-x h) pushes a mark at the original 
> location.  So after you run shell-command-on-region, you can use C-u 
> C-space C-u C-space to get back to where you were.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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