Re: Newbie: Submit whole buffer and capture output

[Daniel Pittman]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com" <Matthew.Pettis@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:33:28 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> I code perl scripts, and I want to find out how to submit a whole
>> buffer (with a shebang at top) to the shell and capture the output
>> somewhere in Emacs -- probably the *command shell* window, which I
>> know nothing about other than the name.
>
> You want "M-|".  Invoke Perl in a way that makes it read the script
> from its standard input.

...alternately, after saving the script to disk, one of:

  M-x compile perl ./myscript.pl
  M-! perl ./myscript.pl

Those might do what you want.

Regards,
        Daniel
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