External Tools: new argument to use temporary file

[Stefan]

I want to suggest an new argument for the External Tools setup:

$(TempFile)

This is for tools which needs to work on an file.

When this argument is given, the selected text is
written to an temp file like “\%tmp\%eetemp214.txt”
and this path is given as parameter to the external tool.
(For the whole file we can already use the arg $(FilenameEx)
but some tools can not handle $(SelText) with multi lines)

Example
Command: .toolstool.exe
Argument: /P 3 /F $(TempFile)

and the command line is build like
p:athtoEmEditortoolstool.exe /P 3 /F “\%tmp\%eetemp214.txt”

(of course, \%tmp\% would be expanded before.)

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