Eric Wong writes: > Just wondering, is this a common thing for other *nix users? > It's been second nature to me for decades, now. Even nvi > supports it (not just vim), so it's not new...
Feeding text to arbitrary shell commands would feel pretty natural to most Emacs users, I think. This can be done with shell-command-on-region (bound to M-| by default). > Subject: [PATCH] doc: lei-lcat: document --stdin behavior > > This is another feature I've found immensely useful, > but I also wonder if I'm the only one who uses it. This is a nice feature to call out. > diff --git a/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod b/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod > index b7887b6c..ea883e65 100644 > --- a/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod > +++ b/Documentation/lei-lcat.pod > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ lei lcat [OPTIONS] (--stdin|-) > lcat (local cat) is a wrapper around L<lei-q(1)> that displays local > messages by Message-ID. It is able to extract Message-IDs from URLs > as well as from common formats such as C<E<lt>$MSGIDE<gt>> and > -C<id:$MSGID>. When reading from stdin, input that isn't understood is > +C<id:$MSGID>. When reading from C<stdin>, input that isn't understood is Fwiw I went in the opposite direction with ee308223 (doc: lei-import: drop markup of "stdin", 2021-02-27), removing the only C<stdin> in the docs.
