From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Editing Emacs buffer with external editor Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 23:22:40 +0300 Message-ID: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40339"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 22:23:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lkYA2-000AMs-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 22:23:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40276 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkYA1-0003Ck-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 16:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkY9h-0003B0-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 16:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:55585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkY9f-0006RG-2V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 16:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.35.51]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF16.0000000060A9681D.00007087; Sat, 22 May 2021 13:22:53 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130083 Archived-At: For those people who wish edit Emacs buffers with external editor within Emacs editing session: (defcustom rcd-external-editor "notepadqq" "The external editor as an option for some functions" :group 'rcd :type 'string) (defun rcd-edit-with-external-editor (&optional text) "Editing with external editor as defined in `rcd-external-editor'. It will either edit the optional TEXT as string argument. Otherwise it will edit the current buffer and replace it with the result." (interactive) (let* ((buffer-or-text (if text nil t)) (text (if buffer-or-text (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)) text)) (point (point)) ;; (mode major-mode) (file (concat (or (getenv "TMPDIR") "/tmp/") "temp-file"))) (string-to-file-force text file) (call-process rcd-external-editor nil nil nil file) (if buffer-or-text (progn (erase-buffer) (insert (file-to-string file)) (goto-char point)) (file-to-string file)))) Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/