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:

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

Copr: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/psss/edd/

Names

edd is the abbreviation of EDit clipboarD.

psss is the nick of Petr Šplíchal (author).