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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Murali Agastya wrote:
> Sorry for not being able to reply earlier.
>
> Perhaps what I had in mind is a small plugin that which opens a pipe
>  that TeXmacs listens to by default (say .TeXmacs.in) . So if I wish to
> have small things, like inserting a reference using an external program
> or have default assosications with a .tm file in  a file manger, I could
> simply do
>
> cat latex:\cite{foo} > .TeXmacs.in
> cat command:(load-in-new-window "foo.tm")
>
> What do you think?

Yes, that might be funny. Yet, I do think that the right way to do this
is to write a small plugin which does precisely this: listen to a specific
file or pipe and send this to TeXmacs. Notice also that you should not
forget the \2 (DATA_BEGIN) and \5 (DATA_END) in your example.