An easy way to edit your clipboard contents!
copyedit is intended to be an alternative to Text Editor Anywhere
pip3 install copyedit
or pip3 install git+https://github.com/Rayquaza01/copyedit
- Run
copyedit.py
. - It will ask for a file extension, create a file with your current clipboard contents, and open the file in your editor.
- When you close your editor, it will copy the contents of the file to your clipboard
The options are saved in ~/copyedit.json
and can be overridden in a config file per folder.
editor
: The command to run your preferred text editor. The file with the clipboard contents will be passed as an argument. Defaults tovim
default_extension
: The default file extension to use. Can be changed while running. Defaults totxt
directory
: The directory to save the temporary clipboard files in. Defaults to~/copyedit
delete_on_close
: Whether to delete the temporary file after copyedit finishes. Defaults tofalse
Two arguments are accepted:
--blank
(-b
): make the file blank, instead of using clipboard contents. Will still copy file contents to clipboard after the editor is closed--deleteOnClose
(-doc
): Delete on close, overrides the config option.