From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gist: get output of an external program on region Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:18:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150826044653.19275.0DC19FFF@ahiker.mooo.com> <87y4gy4m13.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <20150826065432.19832.0393CFDE@ahiker.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440602337 10089 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2015 15:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:18:57 +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 Aug 26 17:18:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcTN-0006Hq-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcTM-00051o-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcT7-0004yE-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:18:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcT3-00017m-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcT3-00017i-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:18:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcT0-000603-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:18:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.254.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:18:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:18:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZcuLFbtYaq84g076Xr1z/Du35Rs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106854 Archived-At: > 3. I need to avoid the interactive side-effects of > shell-command-on-region, such as its tendency to create a new window to > view the output buffer. Of course. Elisp code rarely if ever needs/wants to call things like shell-command-on-region. It should use call-process and friends. Stefan