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user-inactivated  ·  3151 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What does your desktop look like, Hubski?

I don't think emacs really deserves its reputation of trying to be your whole world. It is happy to work the the tools the rest of the environment provides. shell-command-on-region is handy if you have some text you want to transform and can see how to do it with awk or some other external tool more easily than with elisp, for example.