Re: Take input from user thru another application

2013-09-29 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I use emacs/gnus as my newsreader. > > In gnus you can select msgs and then run shell cmds on that selected > content. > > I want to know how to take user input during that action. I think the best way to approach this is to collect the user

Take input from user thru another application

2013-09-29 Thread Harry Putnam
I use emacs/gnus as my newsreader. In gnus you can select msgs and then run shell cmds on that selected content. I want to know how to take user input during that action. That is, I run a perl script against the selected content. When that script first starts to process the piped content I want

Re: question about perl 6 sigils

2013-09-29 Thread Peter Scott
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:48:40 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > I read both the book and the exegenis, it is only that it requires me to > think about the correct usage of sigils because it is not as much > intuitive for me as it is in v5. > I was just trying to explain to my brain why having immutable s