this would not allow for commands that take the whole document as input and the current selection as output, and autocompletion thingies wouldn't work _that_ good, so considering this I'm on +1 for allan's proposal.

I think some minor changes to the wording of Allan's solution might make it more readable. What about:

Output: [ Discard ] [ Text ] and [ pop-up ] [ Snippet ] and [ pop-up ] [ HTML ] [ Tool Tip ] [ New Document ]

And then the pop-up showing for the Text and Snippet output options have the folowing options:

and [ Replace Input ] [ Replace Selection ] [ Replace Document ] [ Insert After Caret ]

This version uses more [action verbs][1], which makes it read more logically.

by the way, I'd like an option to show the output as a popup menu (or something like that): this would perfectly suit autocompletion. think about it, al.

I'll second that.

Nice ideas, Allan! Cheers,

Ben

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