On 8/1/23 1:43 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
Yep, the need for shell escapes largely went away with
windowing and job
control.
Eh ... I don't know about that.
I routinely use :'<,'>!sort or some similar external filter program on
lines in the file that I'm working with.
:'a,'b!base64 -d
Maybe I'm in the minority in doing such things.
My understanding is that those require shell escapes to function.
Grant. . . .