Re: [Nano-devel] how should piping through an external command work?

[Brand Huntsman]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:24:32 +0100
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> Op 18-02-18 om 14:42 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
> > I have an Idea: if the first character of a command is a '|' (and
> > there is no text selected), nano should pipe the whole buffer to the
> > command. This is not very discoverable but would allow us to have
> > both possibilities without the need of  new toggle.  
> 
> Not bad.  But, as you say, this is not discoverable, and that is not
> nano's style.  Nano's style is to show in the help lines the things
> that are possible.

What if ^| (or ^\ or M-| or M-\) was similar to comment/uncomment but it 
prefixes/unprefixes the command in ^R^X with a '|'. The '|' can still be 
manually typed but it gets a discoverable toggle and stays with the command in 
history.