From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: external script inserting text at point Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:10:41 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259255954 28891 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 17:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:19:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 18:19:07 2009 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 1NDhzm-00012d-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:19:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhzl-0004Cf-LA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:19:05 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!g26g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.107.217.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1259251841 31770 127.0.0.1 (26 Nov 2009 16:10:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g26g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=188.107.217.87; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175080 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:70148 Archived-At: hi I'm trying to trigger insertion of text-snippets into the current buffer/point from external scripts. E.g I tried from bash to call emacsclient -e '(insert "huhu")' and emacsclient -ne '(insert-file "~/tmp/tst.pl")' but without success... what am I missing? Do I have to select the current point? (I already checked that client and server communication works) Any help appreciated Cheers Rolf