John Tobey writes:
Huh? I want Perl to chew on the text in my buffer, not draw
widgets.
Could you please elaborate.
I baffled why simple subprocesses aren't good enough.
shell-command-on-region.
As someone who was written scripts that crash Perl and scripty
that crash Emacs (SIGSEGV, SIGBUS), I'm not looking forward to
trying to debug a combination of the two. Call it what it is: FEAR.