kak-anywhere
Launch a Kakoune editor anywhere to edit text from other applications!
Usage
The standard use case is to allow editing text from other applications' feature-poor text fields:
- with an entry field highlighted hit
win-e
. This will open the field's existing contents in a floating Kakoune window for editing. - On exiting the Kakoune editor, the field's contents is replaced with the edited contents.
There is a more flexible hotkey, win-c
that just allows editing the current
clipboard contents. This is a super flexible tool that can be used in a number
of creative ways including:
- Use as a quickly opened scratch-pad
- Use as a calculator: Just write a math expression in Kakoune, select the line
with
x
and evaluate it using!bc -l
.
Requirements:
Setup
-
Edit the commented variables at the top of
kak-anywhere.ahk
. -
Add the AHK script to your startup folder at
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
. -
Run the AHK script
kak-anywhere.ahk
.