m1jjh00@fed.frb.gov (Jeffrey J. Hallman) (03/24/89)
I'm running Splus from Statistical Sciences in a shell buffer. It has a help() function which runs a program that formats the requested help document in man style, redirecting its output either to a file or through a pipe to a pager (e.g., more). I've hacked it to do the following: (i) Direct the formatted output to a file /tmp/xxx.shelp, where xxx is the topic help was requested for, then (ii) Run emacsclient /tmp/xxx.shelp & This works fine, except that it's slower than I'd like. If I could just pipe the output from the formatter into its own Emacs buffer it would save some time. I don't want to keep the .shelp file anyway. Is there a way I can do this? Jeff Hallman, Stop 71 uunet!fed!m1jjh00 USENET Division of Monetary Affairs m1jjh00@fed.frb.gov BITNET, ARPANET