Re: pushing a string in the cut&paste stack

[Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:50:07PM +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi Giulio,
> 
> > to put the output of a program in the shell killring, something like
> > 
> > myprogram | copythis
> 
> This example sounds more interesting.  Actually, this reminds me of a
> zsh-feature that I am missing sometimes: execute the command at the prompt
> and replace it with its result.  Something like this:
> 
>  condor:~>zcalc 170000. /7
>   [some magic key..]
>  condor:~>24285.714285714286
>   [ctrl-A zcalc ...]
>  condor:~>zcalc 24285.714285714286 % 7
>   [some magic key..]
>  condor:~>2
>   [and so on...]
> 
> Any ideas?
> That would make your copy_this superflous, too.  (c;
[...]

edit-command-output() {
  BUFFER=$(eval $BUFFER)
  CURSOR=0
}
zle -N edit-command-output
bindkey '\e!' edit-command-output

$ echo foo<Meta-!>
$ foo

Or maybe:

edit-command-output() {
  local output
  output=$(eval $BUFFER) || return
  BUFFER=$output
  CURSOR=0
}

-- 
Stéphane