Emacs Shell Command on Region

Performing an Operation on a Region

Problem

when using emacs as the e-mail editor within mutt, messages that have been sent with the quoted-printable encoding appear with replacement strings instead of real characters...

Solution with konwert

Select the region that has to be converted, then press C-u ESC-¦ konwert qp-8bit RET. This passes the contents of the selected region through the converter konwert, changing quoted-printable to 8bit encoding, and replaces the region with the output of the conversion.

• without the prefix C-u, the output is placed in a newly created *Shell Output Buffer*.
• ESC-¦ is equivalent to M-¦, but the latter does not always work in terminal windows.