Always use your favorite text editor, anywhere.
I'm completely addicted to using Vim for editing text. Any time Vim is not around I feel so slow, so inefficient, so cumbersome. Thus I created Edd who enables me to use Vim literally anywhere.
Edd is a tiny script which allows to easily edit content of the
clipboard with a single keyboard shortcut. In this way Edd enables
you to always use your favorite text editor, wherever you need.
The name edd is the abbreviation of EDit clipboarD.
Simple and straightforward:
select, edd, paste
Use Ctrl-V shortcut to paste the updated text. Some applications support the Ctrl-Shift-V keyboard shortcut for pasting clipboard content as plain text. Try this one if the formatting is broken.
Available command line options are:
| --last | open last edited text |
| --list | select text from history list |
| --shortcut | set up Alt-Shift-E keyboard shortcut |
Note: Shortcut creation works with Gnome 2 and Gnome 3.
Edd uses the following environment variables:
- EDITOR
- set to the text editor of your choice
- EDD_CONFIG
- path to the config file (default: ~/.edd)
- EDD_COMMAND
- command to be executed by the keyboard shortcut
The default command is:
gnome-terminal --command edd
Use environment variable or config file to customize it:
EDD_COMMAND="gnome-terminal --geometry 111x44 --command edd"
Note: Run edd --shortcut to update the command afterwards.
The easiest way is to install the latest packages from copr:
dnf copr enable psss/edd dnf install edd
However, edd does not depend on rpm packaging. It should
run fine on any Linux distribution. Just make sure xclip is
installed on your box, clone the repo and use happily :-)
Git: https://github.com/psss/edd
Docs: http://edd.readthedocs.org/
Issues: https://github.com/psss/edd/issues
Releases: https://github.com/psss/edd/releases
Copr: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/psss/edd/
Petr Šplíchal, Branislav Blaškovič, Ryan Brown and Eva Mráková.