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A scratch pad to be run from a lunch short cut within a terminal on an X11 desktop. Grabs selected text and pastes the completed text onto the clipboard.
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| set -e | |
| path=$(mktemp -p /tmp scratch.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).XXXX.txt) | |
| xsel -o -p > $path | |
| /usr/bin/vim -c 'set enc=utf8 fenc=utf8' $path | |
| cat $path | xsel -i -b | |
| cat $path | xsel -i -p | |
| sleep 0.5 |
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