* Sending marked text to external program?
@ 2008-03-14 16:00 Uwe Scholz
2008-03-14 16:58 ` Brendan Halpin
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From: Uwe Scholz @ 2008-03-14 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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
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2008-03-14 16:00 Sending marked text to external program? Uwe Scholz
@ 2008-03-14 16:58 ` Brendan Halpin
2008-03-14 17:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-03-19 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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From: Brendan Halpin @ 2008-03-14 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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?
2008-03-14 16:00 Sending marked text to external program? Uwe Scholz
2008-03-14 16:58 ` Brendan Halpin
@ 2008-03-14 17:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-03-19 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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From: Giorgos Keramidas @ 2008-03-14 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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.
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* Re: Sending marked text to external program?
2008-03-14 16:00 Sending marked text to external program? Uwe Scholz
2008-03-14 16:58 ` Brendan Halpin
2008-03-14 17:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
@ 2008-03-19 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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From: Xavier Maillard @ 2008-03-19 1:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Uwe Scholz; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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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