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From: pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: process filters
Message-ID: <234@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 22:51:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 12 22:51:34 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Nov-86 21:57:58 EST
Reply-To: pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing)
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I want to write a process filter for GNU emacs and can not seem to
find all the hooks I am looking for.  Basically, I would like to take
the string passed to the filter function and look at it character by
character.  With each character, I would want to either insert it into
the process's buffer or execute some function.  Actually I would
prefer to add the characters to the buffer in "overwrite-mode".

I am assuming that the most effecient way to go about doing this is to
tie into emac's key-map facilities.  I have looked in the help
facility and can not find what I need.  I can obviously do it by
indexing into the string and getting each character.  Using the
character to index into another vector of functions (like a keymap)
and execute the function.  That might not be too bad but thought I'd
ask if that was a better method.

-- 
Perry Smith
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