Edd¶
Always use your favorite text editor, anywhere.
Motivation¶
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.
Summary¶
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.
Usage¶
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.
Options¶
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 has been tested with the latest gnome shell only.
Config¶
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.
Links¶
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