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[Robert Lamar <address@hidden>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 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.

Actually, as far as I can tell, it was even in vi before it was in vim. 
  An old and well-established feature, indeed.

For those of you who aren't so familiar with vim, the emacs analogues 
are (I believe) `M_1 M-!' and `M-1 M-|'.