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Re: [Nano-devel] how should piping through an external command work?


From: Benno Schulenberg
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] how should piping through an external command work?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:24:32 +0100
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Op 18-02-18 om 14:42 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
> I have an Idea: if the first character of a command is a '|' (and
> there is no text selected), nano should pipe the whole buffer to the
> command. This is not very discoverable but would allow us to have both
> possibilities without the need of  new toggle.

Not bad.  But, as you say, this is not discoverable, and that is not
nano's style.  Nano's style is to show in the help lines the things
that are possible.

Benno


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