Command on current buffer

Command on current buffer

[Boris]

I want to execute a command on the current buffer or file. Someone here
recommended shell-command-on-region, but that works on a region, not on a
buffer.
How do I pass the whole buffer to a shell command?

Boris Hollas

Re: Command on current buffer

[Mats Löfdahl]

Boris <b0risNO@gmxDOTde.SPAM> writes:

> I want to execute a command on the current buffer or file. Someone
> here recommended shell-command-on-region, but that works on a
> region, not on a buffer.
> How do I pass the whole buffer to a shell command?

M-x mark-whole-buffer

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-- Mats Löfdahl                                                  --
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Re: Command on current buffer

[Boris]

Mats Löfdahl wrote:

> M-x mark-whole-buffer

No, I don't want to mark the buffer first, I want to execute something
similar to tex-latex-file. Doesn't Emacs have that?

Re: Command on current buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Boris wrote:

> Mats Löfdahl wrote:
>>M-x mark-whole-buffer


C-x h


> No, I don't want to mark the buffer first, I want to execute something
> similar to tex-latex-file. Doesn't Emacs have that?

"Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
display editor."


(defun shell-command-on-buffer (command)
  "Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell with buffer as input.
See \\[shell-command-on-region]."
  (interactive (list (read-from-minibuffer "Shell command on buffer: "
                                           nil nil nil
                                           'shell-command-history)))
  (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) command
                           current-prefix-arg
                           current-prefix-arg
                           shell-command-default-error-buffer))

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Kevin Rodgers

Re: Command on current buffer

[Kai Grossjohann]

Boris <b0risNO@gmxDOTde.SPAM> writes:

> Mats Löfdahl wrote:
>
>> M-x mark-whole-buffer
>
> No, I don't want to mark the buffer first

But marking the buffer first is how you do it...  What's bad about
marking the buffer first?  Too many keys to press?

C-x h M-| foo RET doesn't seem too long IMVHO.

Kai