Re: Perl "plugin" for Emacs

[Nikolai Weibull]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 23:22, paxxus <paxxus@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to perform some text formatting in Perl as that will be
> way faster for me than having to learn Lisp. Here's what I'm after:
>
> 1. Select a region in Emacs.
> 2. Press a key.
> 3. The selected text is passed to a Perl script.
> 4. Output from Perl script replaces the selected region.
>
> Is this possible and what exactly would I have to put in my .emacs if, let's
> say, the key I want to bind is F5 and the Perl script is located at
> ~/Emacs/format.pl

Look up the function shell-command-on-region.