From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Name of the active buffer Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:22:48 -0600 Message-ID: References: <11013905.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181715808 11605 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 06:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:23:28 +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 Jun 13 08:23:26 2007 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 1HyMGH-0006U4-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:23:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyMGH-0007nf-0N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyMG0-0007nQ-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyMFy-0007nE-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyMFy-0007nB-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyMFx-0001gu-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HyMFj-000639-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: <11013905.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44990 Archived-At: hfleming wrote: > Suppose I want to run, from emacs, the program "prog" with the active buffer, > "buffer", say, as argument. > Of course I can do "Meta-! prog buffer". Some editors, however, have a > default name for the active buffer. In vi, for instance, one can do ":! prog > %" . In ultraedit, the buffer is called "%f". How can we do that in emacs? If it is a "normal" command that reads from standard input when no file name argument is given: C-x h M-| prog RET -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA