in reply to can a text editor read from perl output?

With vi you can just use - to tell it that the file is on stdin. And just pipe it in.
decrypt.pl | vi -
Pico is even easier.
decrypt.pl | pico

Update: Well, even though I'm an emacs user, I don't see an obvious way to do this. There are probably 100 ways to do it. But good luck...


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