Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer

[Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>]

Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:

> emacs 22.3.1 on slack 13.0/32-bit

> Consider the following text:

> [[10:00 11:27][14:43 14:57]] ;; ^output here

> Given that I have selected:
> "[[10:00 11:27][14:43 14:57]]"
> as a region, I would like to send that region to an external application
> and insert the output as indicated.

> I've recently started using emacs again after several years, and have in
> the past written quite a few elisp functions and keybindings for my own
> use. The external application has already been written, I've used it
> with vim and "r !<shell command>" for years.

> References to relevant and related elisp functions and scripts would
> probably be sufficient, however, if someone has done this already - why
> re-invent the wheel?

Not exactly what you require, but
C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET will /replace/ the re-
gion with the output of the shell-command operated on the
original region.

Tim