Re: who runs commands from their $EDITOR?

[Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>]

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.