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["Mark Hughes (Zim mailing list)" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just looked at Custom Tools and would like to check this isn't 
supported and offer it as a suggestion:

Additional tool parameter %x - temporary file containing selection (wiki 
format)
I would also like a checkbox: "replace selection with stdout output". My 
use case is to be able to pipe a selection through sed/awk/sort etc For 
example: "sort %x" Execution should leave the selection active (but with 
processed contents) and not scroll the page. Currently the page gets 
scrolled to the end.

Also, I think the existing code is a little flakey as when I 
accidentally executed a command that used the %f parameter but did 
nothing to the file, the content formatting was slightly modified. I had 
just copied and pasted a small selection to test, which may have left 
some unseen wiki formatting in an odd place, because when I ran the 
command a line of normal text became heading 2 format. I think this was 
the first line of my cut/paste, and the cut probably began underneath a 
line which was header 2 format (Zim 0.59 on Windows 7).

Mark