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Re: Piping output to a buffer
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cothrige |
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Re: Piping output to a buffer |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:25:55 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> In article <877igtho8a.fsf@celephais.home.net>,
> cothrige <cothrige@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that in vim one can invoke an external command and pipe
>> the output into the current buffer via the `!!` or `:r!` commands.
>> While I have not made a habit of really using this command in vim, as I
>> have also not made a habit of using vim, I did realize that this could
>> be a really useful capability. So, how might one do this in emacs?
>
> C-u M-!
Yep, that did it alright. I had assumed that emacs could do it, just
wondered how. I do believe that will be a convenient and useful trick
to know. I thank you for filling me in on it.
Many thanks,
Patrick