Sending marked text to external program?

Sending marked text to external program?

[Uwe Scholz]

Hello all!

I wondered if it is possible to mark a peace of text or a hole line end
send it to an external programm, for example "boxes", and include the
output in the active buffer (or maybe a new one).

Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

Greatings,
Uwe

Re: Sending marked text to external program?

[Brendan Halpin]

Try M-| , which is shell-command-on-region 

With a prefix argument it replaces the region with the result: mark a
section of text, and do C-u M-| wc RET and see what happens. 

Brendan
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Re: Sending marked text to external program?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:00:10 +0100, Uwe Scholz <nurfuernews@web.de> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I wondered if it is possible to mark a peace of text or a hole line end
> send it to an external programm, for example "boxes", and include the
> output in the active buffer (or maybe a new one).
>
> Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

`C-u M-|' runs `shell-command-on-region'.

If you use M-| without a prefix argument, it shows the output of the
external filter command in a new buffer.  If you run `C-u M-|', then the
output of the filter command replaces the region in the current buffer.

Re: Sending marked text to external program?

[Xavier Maillard]

   Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

I won't comment on the other solutions but if you are interested
in doing this sort of thing very frequently, I recommend you to
have a look on eev-mode which does this and more.

	Xavier
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