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From: pratap@hpcllcm.HP.COM (Pratap Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: (call-process-region)
Message-ID: <1190002@hpcllcm.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:17:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Hi,

I was looking at the code foe (shell-command-on-region) today and I find that
there are ways to actually delete the region with the output from the shell
command, but there is no way to not see the shell command output. I had to 
go around and call (call-process-region) instead. 

My question to the creators these defuns, why is that (shell-command-region)
doesn't let you discard its output whereas (call-process-region) does. After
all one seems to a logical subset of the other.


-- pratap