Re: Edit selected/hilighted text

[Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft gmx de>]

Hi Michelle,

Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle freenet de> wrote:
> if I am in 'mcedit' and edit a text, I like to select a text
> and sned it via STDIN into a command and past the output
> (STDOUT) into the selection.
>
> Exactly I want to remplace the selection.
>
> How is this possibel ?

If you don't need an spell checker then you can solve it this way:

- first create this file
touch ~/.mc/cedit/edit.spell.rc
chmod 700 ~/.mc/cedit/edit.spell.rc
- edit this file to do the stuff you like
- the selected text you can read from ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.block
- after your commands finished put the replacement for the
selected text back into the file ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.block
- select text in mcedit and press M-$

e.g. 

--- edit.spell.rc -----------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
# converts selected text in mcedit with upper case chars
BLOCK=`cat ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.block`
echo ${BLOCK} | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > ~/.mc/cedit/cooledit.block
------------------------------------------------------------

With this sample rc file you can convert the selected text in upper
case chars.

regards
Frank
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echo '23dd4-+dn10-P18+d4+d14+PPP[]pq'|dc