Friday, October 13, 2006

how to pipe perl stdout to a new emacs instance?

I've been trying to get emacs to read data from stdin but haven't figured it out yet. On OSX I started doing this for a script I had written. The script would get data from a remote source, do stuff to the data, and then output that data to stdout. I'd pipe that data to the command line TextWrangler tool edit, which just worked.

To get this working with vi, I learnt that one could do something like
./perlscript someargument | vi -

I am looking for something equivalent for emacs.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...