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Re: Reading file in emacs
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Dirk-Jan C . Binnema |
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Re: Reading file in emacs |
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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:11:59 +0300 |
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>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:05:18 -0600, Qiang Guo ("QG") wrote:
QG> Hi,
QG> I'm wondering if there is a way to read the content of files, say, to a
QG> variable rather than a buffer ? Of course, one way to do
QG> this is first read file into buffer and then edit the
QG> buffer. Here comes my second question, how to process file
QG> in a byte-by-byte fashion, for instance, instead of editing
QG> a line of text, I'd like to edit directly their binary
QG> representations ?
I'd bet there are more elegant (elispy) ways to do this, but to read a file
into a variable, you could do something like:
(setq filedata (shell-command-to-string "cat /foo/bar/myfile"))
Best wishes,
Dirk.
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