The "scripts" menu

[Richard Dale]

On Friday 17 February 2006 11:41, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 09:52, Richard Dale wrote:
> > I think we should get it working and add a few more scripts, not just
> > remove it. The NeXT Edit app had a feature where you could pipe the
> > current selection through a unix command and that was very useful indeed.
> > For instance, select a list of words and pipe them through 'sort -u', and
> > the output would replace the selection. Of course it's very important to
> > have 'undo' for when you screw up, but we have that.
>
> For the record, the "shell filtering and insertion" plugin in KDevelop can
> do exactly this.
Wow! Yes, you're right I've just tried 'Filter Selection Through Comman' 
option - that's perfect.

-- Richard