Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer

[Tim Landscheidt]

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

> [...]
>>> Consider the following text:

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

> [...]

>> 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.

>       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.

If the pattern is nothing fancy, you can always try C-M-%
with a replacement argument along the lines of

   \1 ;; \,(shell-command-to-string (concat "echo \"" \1 "\" | your-command"))

I just tested it with bc. Beware of the newline at the end
of the shell output, though.

Tim