RE: Perl "plugin" for Emacs

[Paxxus]

> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:01:57 +0200
> Subject: Re: Perl "plugin" for Emacs
> From: now@bitwi.se
> To: paxxus@hotmail.com
> CC: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 23:22, paxxus <paxxus@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to be able to perform some text formatting in Perl as that will be
> > way faster for me than having to learn Lisp. Here's what I'm after:
> >
> > 1. Select a region in Emacs.
> > 2. Press a key.
> > 3. The selected text is passed to a Perl script.
> > 4. Output from Perl script replaces the selected region.
> >
> > Is this possible and what exactly would I have to put in my .emacs if, let's
> > say, the key I want to bind is F5 and the Perl script is located at
> > ~/Emacs/format.pl
>
> Look up the function shell-command-on-region.

I figured out how to do it. I put this command into my .emacs:

(global-set-key
  (kbd "<f5>")
  ( lambda () (interactive)
    ( shell-command-on-region
      (region-beginning) (region-end) "perl ~/Emacs/format.pl" nil t
    )
  )
)

Thanks for the help!