Perl is a great reporting language. It just happens to be inconvenient to run reports and get them into a text editor so I can look at them. This fixes that by making it easy to run perl scripts and have the output show up in a new buffer.

Usage. This creates functions for your scripts so the function to call is up to you.

M-x nab-duplicate-usernames

An example copied from my .emacs file.

;; Domino address book stuff
(perl-script nab-duplicate-employeeids
             "Fetch duplicate NAB employeeids"
             "Notes\\NAB\\DuplicateEmployeeIDs.pl")
(perl-script nab-mismatch-employeeid-case
             "Fetch employeeids with mismatched case (AggDb vs NAB)"
             "Notes\\NAB\\MismatchCase.pl")
(perl-script nab-duplicate-employeeids-harder
             "Fetch duplicate NAB employeeids harder"
             "Notes\\NAB\\DuplicateEmployeeIDsHarder.pl")
(perl-script aggregation-duplicate-employeeids
             "Fetch duplicate Aggregation Db usernames"
             "Notes\\NAB\\AggDb-DuplicateEmployeeIDs.pl")
(perl-script nab-duplicate-usernames
             "Fetch duplicate NAB usernames"
             "Notes\\NAB\\DuplicateUsernames.pl")
(perl-script nab-inactive-users-in-nab
             "Fetch ex-employees in the NAB"
             "Notes\\NAB\\GDInactiveInNAB.pl")

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Add the perl-script macro and some configuration variables to your .emacs file.

;; Wrap perl scripts with emacs
(setq perl-program "C:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe")
(setq perl-script-path "C:\\usr\\local\\bin\\")
(defmacro perl-script (name
                       description
                       executable)
  `(defun ,name ()
     ,description
     (interactive)
     (let ((buf (generate-new-buffer ,(symbol-name name))))
       (shell-command ,(concat perl-program
                               " "
                               perl-script-path
                               executable)
                      buf)
       buf)))

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In reply to Wrap perl scripts in emacs by diotalevi

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