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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 08:42:52PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Is there any easy way to include the output of external commands from shell
> into texmacs? For example, in vim, if one wants to include the output of
> date into a document, all that is needed is
> 
> :r !date
> 
> and the vim window will execute the date command on a shell and include its
> output into the current document.

Such a command should not be added by default,
because it would imply a serious security hole.
On the other hand, I agree that we might provide at least
a switch for it (i.e. promote 'shell' as a scripting language).

Best wishes, Joris