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Re: select a section of text and run it into another process?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: select a section of text and run it into another process? |
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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:10:28 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:15:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com>
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> My emacs is going well, but something I would like to be able to do is run a
> section of code in a file and send it to an eshell process of python/ipython
> to evaluated.
To send a portion of text to a process (not eshell, but a program that
Emacs will invoke), select the text and then type "M-|". Emacs will
prompt for the command to invoke on this text.
> How do I do this, I am not sure how to select the text without using the
> mouse, there are a lot of people guessing on this SO question
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657672/how-to-select-or-highlight-a-block-in-emacs)
> but can anyone provide a solid answer?
Type "C-SPC" on one edge of the text, then move to the other. That's
all; the text between those two points is now selected.