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Hello all!

I wondered if it is possible to mark a peace of text or a hole line end
send it to an external programm, for example "boxes", and include the
output in the active buffer (or maybe a new one).

Is this possible? If yes, how? Does a shortcut exist for this task?

Greatings,
Uwe