From 91fb6aaa3da7d010faf8f45efec0cef5c8779b54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsc <devnull@localhost>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:18:50 +0000
Subject: add paragraph about < | >

---
 man/man1/acme.1 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man/man1/acme.1')

diff --git a/man/man1/acme.1 b/man/man1/acme.1
index 78fe155e..3cc2d471 100644
--- a/man/man1/acme.1
+++ b/man/man1/acme.1
@@ -460,6 +460,24 @@ Undo last textual change or set of changes.
 .TP
 .B Zerox
 Create a copy of the window containing most recently selected text.
+.TP
+.B <|>
+If a regular shell command is preceded by a
+.BR < ,
+.BR | ,
+or
+.B >
+character, the selected text in the body of the window is affected by the
+I/O from the command.
+The
+.B <
+character causes the selection to be replaced by the standard output
+of the command;
+.B >
+causes the selection to be sent as standard input to the command; and
+.B |
+does both at once, `piping' the selection through the command and
+replacing it with the output.
 .PP
 A common place to store text for commands is in the tag; in fact
 .I acme
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