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inserting output of shell-command (was: Major usability issue)
From: |
lawrence mitchell |
Subject: |
inserting output of shell-command (was: Major usability issue) |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Sep 2002 21:04:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) |
Bruce Korb wrote:
> 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. :-(
/----[ C-h k M-! ]
| M-! runs the command shell-command
| which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)
|
| Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
| With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND's output at point.
| [...]
\----
So you probably want to be typing something like C-1 M-! at the
correct point in your buffer.
--
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
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