external script inserting text at point

[LanX]

hi

I'm trying to trigger insertion of text-snippets into the current
buffer/point from external scripts.

E.g I tried from bash to call

emacsclient -e '(insert "huhu")'

and

emacsclient -ne '(insert-file "~/tmp/tst.pl")'

but without success... what am I missing? Do I have to select the
current point?

(I already checked that client and server communication works)

Any help appreciated

Cheers
Rolf

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, LanX <lanx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm trying to trigger insertion of  text-snippets into the current
> buffer/point from external scripts.
>
> E.g I tried from bash to call
>
> emacsclient -e '(insert "huhu")'
>
> and
>
> emacsclient -ne '(insert-file "~/tmp/tst.pl")'
>
> but without success... what am I missing? Do I have to select the
> current point?

You have to select buffer.

[LanX]

Hi

On 26 Nov., 18:42, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You have to select buffer.

well the question was more how to find the last selected buffer...

anyway after some fiddling I found a working approach: 8)

emacsclient -e '(progn (switch-to-buffer (car (buffer-list)))(insert
"huhu"))'

Cheers
Rolf

[Lennart Borgman]

Is that guaranteed to give the current buffer on the selected frame?

[LanX]

Is that guaranteed to give the current buffer on the selected frame?

you're asking me? :)

I don't know, till now it worked fine!

[Lennart Borgman]

What does the doc string tell you?

[LanX]

What does the doc string tell you?

What does Lennart want to tell me?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:42 PM, LanX <lanx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What does the doc string tell you?
>
> What does Lennart want to tell me?

That he is interested in if the documentation in this case is good
enough. Actually he does not think so, but someone else might find it
better.

[LanX]

That he is interested in if the documentation in this case is good
enough. Actually he does not think so, but someone else might find it
better.

Lennart, answering with trivial questions sounds much like the therapist finally got access into gnus! ;-)


No, the documentation I saw so far is not good enough.

But I didn't read *all* the docs thats why I'm asking here for help and insight...

oh ... 

...well googling for buffer-list brought deeper insight, it's in the elisp-info:

"The order of the buffers in this list is based primarily on how recently each buffer has been displayed in a window. "

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/The-Buffer-List.html

Sufficient? :)

[Lennart Borgman]

I wouldn't say so ;-)

It is unclear to me what "displayed in a window" mean.

[Steve Revilak]

LanX> I'm trying to trigger insertion of text-snippets into the current
LanX> buffer/point from external scripts.

If you don't mind shell typing commands into the mini-buffer, then
shell-command (typically bound to M-!) will do what you want.

To give an example, the text on the line below
Sun Nov 29 19:28:15 EST 2009

Came from

ESC 1 M-! date RETURN

(The prefix argument inserts command output at point, as opposed to
inserting the command output into a separate buffer.)

Steve