Re: Opening stdin or pipe

[Kai Großjohann]

gregoryj@hotpop.com (Gregory J.) writes:

> I want to be able to pipe data into an Emacs buffer (a new one in a
> new Emacs session would be fine). Preferably, I'd use a normal shell
> pipeline something like this:
>
> whatever-command | emacs -

I think it's best to do it the other way round: from within Emacs,
start whatever-command and read its output.

You can start a process synchronously with call-process.  Or you can
start it asynchronously via start-process.

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