From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:45:08 -0600 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: References: Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266814578 2531 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 04:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:56:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 07:10:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nj4Z7-000334-1D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:41:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nj4Z6-00039w-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:41:12 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:45:07 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Nc6EtXxSExTeLumDSqMY6MW/fUvQuCDRww87jSwizPJga2147zTrewhD6ZrRhU7BbRPEtkM+GRVsLfM!Mbrt/JP4D2udcmNlPSo0GIxjd2bekBhpdEIqLYxscu8BGDHNQsc0RIr3ZhDVC/qNazm9eA0= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176924 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:71995 Archived-At: On 2010-02-21, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Tim Johnson 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 !" 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. Hi Tim: Thanks for the reply. I had found that command, but unfortunately replacing the region is the last thing I want to do. The end game is a "time card", as you might guess from the data structure and the data structure needs to remain intact. Thanks Again! -- Tim tim@johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com