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Re: Sending marked text to external program?


From: Giorgos Keramidas
Subject: Re: Sending marked text to external program?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:13:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix)

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:00:10 +0100, Uwe Scholz <nurfuernews@web.de> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I wondered if it is possible to mark a peace of text or a hole line end
> send it to an external programm, for example "boxes", and include the
> output in the active buffer (or maybe a new one).
>
> Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

`C-u M-|' runs `shell-command-on-region'.

If you use M-| without a prefix argument, it shows the output of the
external filter command in a new buffer.  If you run `C-u M-|', then the
output of the filter command replaces the region in the current buffer.



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