Vim Anywhere - Hackdot

Re:Vim Anywhere by fao_ on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:50PM (#16398356)

Ok, but you can do this with a simple shell script without the reliance on Gnome/GTK:

  #!/bin/bash
  dir="/tmp/vim-anywhere/"
  fn="$(date -Iseconds)"
  [ ! -d $dir ] && mkdir $dir
  vim $dir$fn && cat $dir$fn | xsel -b -i

Then you just need to bind the script to a key inside your window manager.

Bonus: This works anywhere xorg is available.

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Re:Vim Anywhere by zipperhead on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:34AM (#16401105)

I use something like this but I initialize the file with the contents of the clipboard. I use xclip but I think xsel can do the same. Here's a snippet:

    xclip -o > "$tmpfile"    # initialize file with clipboard contents
    gvim --nofork "$tmpfile"
    xclip -i "$tmpfile"      # push file to clipboard

Bind it to a global hotkey and you can use it from anywhere.

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