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

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 21-02-18 om 02:12 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:24:32 +0100
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> What if ^| (or ^\ or M-| or M-\) was similar to comment/uncomment but it 
> prefixes/unprefixes the command in ^R^X with a '|'. The '|' can still be 
> manually typed but it gets a discoverable toggle and stays with the command 
> in history.

Yes.  Excellent.  That will work.

Probably use ^\ for ease of typing: ^R ^X ^\...

Benno

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