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- From: alien@boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten)
- Subject: Re: WTF - I have a stupid question
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:00:08 GMT
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- : How does one pipe text through an external filter (formatter,
- : spell-checker, etc.) from within vi, and (hopefully) have the
- : process text object replace the text object currently on the
- : screen?
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- !<mark>(command)<cr>
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- E.g., to pipe from the cursor to the end of paragraph through "adjust,"
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- !}adjust
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- This is all from the command mode, of course.
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