Re: Major usability issue

[Peter Boettcher]

Bruce Korb <bkorb@pacbell.net> 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.  :-(

M-| still runs shell-command-on-region for me.  Maybe this is one of
the distros that mucked up the Alt and Meta keys?  What does C-h k M-|
show you?


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Peter Boettcher
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