From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying text from emacs to another application using M-w Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:41:55 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878wg6o2sc.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87iqfe8dkw.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87ab0o91bp.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253670642 14613 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2009 01:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:50:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 03:50:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MqH06-00072F-TO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqH06-00041z-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqGzj-00041k-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqGze-00041E-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45891 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqGze-00041B-Cc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51492) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqGzd-0005Bz-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MqGzb-0006qb-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:088afKzfw3lt9lOIFwB3ml2asek= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68403 Archived-At: despen@verizon.net writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Here is an example of the kind of thing that keeps aggravating me. >> >> I've run a search with homemade grepping tool in an Xterm window >> The search results are printing to screen and running off the viewing >> area. >> >> I scroll backup up the xterm buffer and find a file name I want to >> open. > > Does your home made grepping tool output lines in a format similar to > grep? It should. > > That way you can use M-x grep, change the command string to your home > made tool, then edit the file you want by clicking on the name in > the grep buffer. Your talking about working inside a running emacs... this thread is about copying to/from external terminal or application to/from emacs not from inside emacs.