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From: barnett@mozart.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: alignment on the right hand side
Message-ID: <12203@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Sep 88 03:29:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: pdc@otter.hple.hp.com (Damian Cugley)

In article <2000002@otter.hple.hp.com>, pdc@otter (Damian Cugley) writes:
>Almost any UN*X editor should be able to do this.
>One notable exception is the SunView textedit,
>which allows you to bind filters to keys but doesn't allow you to pick
>one completely arbitrarily.

Well, you could select the command you want, and then execute the
binding to paste it into a known filename. Then you could execute the
other binding that will call up the new filter.

	example: Filter # 1

		cat >$HOME/tmp/my-tmp-filter

	Filter #$2:
	
		csh -c `$HOME/tmp/my-tmp-filter`

With 3.x, you have to bind both to function keys.  With 4.0, you have
the option of adding an entry to your pop-up menu inside of textedit.

Another method is to have a filter execute another filter specified in
the secondary selection. Then you could

	1. Type the filter you want to execute. If you had another
	   window with a list of filters, you could use any of them.
	2. Select the text you want filtered with pending delete.
	3. Select the filter you want with the secondary selection
	4. pop up a menu, or press a function key and execute the filter
	   that calls the secondary filter.


The filter might be something like
	
	csh -c `get_selection 2`

The third method is to type in the filter, delete it, and use a filter
like:
	csh -c `get_selection 3`

which executes the filter in the clip-board. I may have a few typo's
because I am typing this in from home, but it shouldn't be hard to get
it working. You should also be able to use more complex statements
with sed, awk, etc. besides the simple one word filters.
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