Re: Name of the active buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

hfleming wrote:
> Suppose I want to run, from emacs, the program "prog" with the active buffer,
> "buffer", say, as argument.
> Of course I can do "Meta-! prog buffer". Some editors, however, have a
> default name for the active buffer. In vi, for instance, one can do ":! prog
> %" . In ultraedit, the buffer is called "%f". How can we do that in emacs?

If it is a "normal" command that reads from standard input when no file 
name argument is given: C-x h M-| prog RET


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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA