From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Major usability issue Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 12:22:54 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031049885 14355 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 10:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mBAo-0003jE-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 12:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mBCA-00077j-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 06:46:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qh7XzuIs3WkE1/+A65dx8kArvyc= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104416 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:981 Bruce Korb writes: > For years I have captured the output of a shell command and inserted > it into my document. The latest distributions of Linux now carry a > version of emacs that makes doing that non-obvious. I'm sure it is > doable, but it is really important to just be able to ALT-| then > type a command and be able to use a mouse click to capture the text. > I haven't read emacs lisp macros yet in order to reverse-engineer > what has been done; but I shouldn't have to either. :-( Well, what is the obvious thing that you do and what happens when you do it? From your description it's not clear to me what you're doing. Maybe you just need to switch to the *Shell Command Output* buffer and copy the text from there? This buffer is not shown by default, when the output of the shell command is short. See the document on shell-command-on-region to see how to change it: /---- | If the command generates output, the output may be displayed | in the echo area or in a buffer. | If the output is short enough to display in the echo area | (determined by the variable `max-mini-window-height' if | `resize-mini-windows' is non-nil), it is shown there. Otherwise | it is displayed in the buffer `*Shell Command Output*'. The output | is available in that buffer in both cases. \---- Does this help? kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)