External Command plugin

[zee]

Hi,

I’ve written a plugin that allows you to filter text through external commands (like vim’s ! or TextMate’s cmd-opt-r). It supports multiple selections and executes the command asynchronously, so the editor shouldn’t hang. You can try it here; suggestions and comments are welcome.

[freewizard]

just about to write one and found this!
thx!

[zee]

Update: I’ve added an optional cmdline argument to the commands, so now you can bind specific external commands to hotkeys (e.g. bind filter through cat -n to quickly add line numbers to the text).