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Re: Copying minibuffer contents
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo |
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Re: Copying minibuffer contents |
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20 Jun 2001 00:07:09 +0300 |
lordemsworthx@yahoo.com (Lord Emsworth) writes:
> Basically, I need to be able to run "pwd" and copy and paste its
> results into another file.
To run a shell command and direct the output to the current
buffer, use M-! with a prefix argument: C-u M-! pwd RET.
In the case of "pwd", Emacs already knows the name of the
directory; one way to get it to the current buffer would be
C-x C-f C-a C-k C-g C-y.