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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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scratch.sh
#!/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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