I am seeking for a way to process data from an Eclipse editor window and
save the transformed data in an external file; the data transformer is an
already existing external Unix shell program that expects as input either
a stream of data or the name of a file that contains the data.
Searching through published Eclipse plugins I found something called
"Emacsish" (to call shell programs from within Eclipse) that seems to go
in that direction, but it's not quite what I need it seems.
So my newbie question is; is there any plugin that makes it possible to
filter the Eclipse editor contents by using an external commandline filter
program and create a new data file from the result? Or is there any other
way how to achieve such tasks with Eclipse? Or, as a last ressort; would
it be necessary to re-implement all the external filter programs as
Eclipse plugin Java programs?
Any enlightenment and all suggestions very much appreciated!