Re: filter buffer and/or region

[Jerry A! <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:38:38AM +0100, Guenter Milde wrote:
: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:37:24AM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
: > I'm doing a let of editing where I need to do some complex regex
: > search and replacing.  'replace_cmd()' is too limited for what I need
: > to do.
: 
: There is a regexp-replace command 
:    M-x query_replace_match
: With (the extended) cua-emulation it is on Ctrl-F P, try Help>Show_Key
: query_replace_match to find out what it is bound to in your setting.
:
: Jed's regexps are somewhat limited in relation to perl or sed, so the
: question is still of interest:

Exactly.  'query_replace_match' won't work for me b/c I need to use
case conversions (\U, \L) in my regexps.
:  
: > I'm curious, is there some way to run a buffer or region through an
: > external filter (sed/awk/perl/etc...) and have the transformation take
: > place inline?
: > 
: > Ex, mark a region -> filter region -> replace original w/new
: 
: With the ishell mode from jedmodes.sf.net/mode/ishell comes a command
: shell_cmd_on_region that can do what you want:
: 
:  SYNOPSIS
:   Save region to a temp file and run a command on it

Thank you!!!  I totally glossed over this when I was checking out
jedmodes.sf.net earlier today.

Suggestion for next version of ishell.sl.  Please consider having it
clean up after itself.  Those temp files are really annoying to clean
up after-the-fact.  :)

        --Jerry

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