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I am tring out kate as a possible alternative to nedit, which
I have used for years. The one thing I haven't figured out
how to do is to add simple text filters which act on the
selection. So for example, I would like to select a region
of text and then call a filter to do something like
convert to upper case, or format to 60 columns, or to sort,...
Linux provides the text filters to do this (tr, fmt, sort,...)
so all I need is a simple way to capture the selection,
run it through the right filter, and replace the selection
with the output. These are things I do a lot so I want to
be able to bind them to a keystroke.

Kate seems to offer a variety of external hooks (plugins,
external tools, and scripts), but I wasn't able to see
how to easily do this with any of them.

Any advice is appreciated. If there is a better forum in
which to post the question, that would good to learn also.

Thanks.

-- DNA