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Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> 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).

FWIW, vim (the other popular editor :-)) has been having this feature for
ages. Never heard that such a functionality would be a security hole.


raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

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• including the output of external commands in texmacs, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 03/17/2008
  • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Henri Lesourd, 03/17/2008
  • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/17/2008
    • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 03/17/2008
      • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Henri Lesourd, 03/18/2008
      • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Alfe, 03/18/2008
      • Re: [TeXmacs] including the output of external commands in texmacs, Robert Lamar, 03/18/2008

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