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Re: Running Perl Scripts in Emacs (on buffer)
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Running Perl Scripts in Emacs (on buffer) |
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Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:44:55 GMT |
In article <de3ad953.0310072059.7cc70e5d@posting.google.com>,
Artist <googleartist@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> wrote in message
>news:<86ad8mx6wo.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org>...
>> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
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>> > No. Without going into a shell and saving (or trying to convert my Perl
>> > scripts into elisp) I want to just run an arbitrary perl script on a
>> > buffer.
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>> C-x h M-| foo.pl RET
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>> Does this help?
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>How do you supply the buffer data to your perl program in this case?
>What would be the arguments?
The buffer data will be piped to the script's standard input. M-| prompts
for a command line to execute, so you type the arguments in that prompt.
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>Let's say I have a file and I like to replace some words via perl
>program, how I would do that?
C-x h M-| scriptname oldword newword
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