blaskovic / edd

Edd - always use your favorite text editor, anywhere.

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 allows you to always use your favorite text editor, wherever you need.

Usage

Simple and straightforward:

select, edd, ctrl-v

Shortcut

To set up a keyboard shortcut Alt-Shift-E run:

edd --shortcut

This has been tested with the latest gnome shell only.

Environment

Uses the following two environment variables:

• EDITOR — set to the text editor of your choice
• EDD_COMMAND — command to be executed by the keyboard shortcut

The default command is this:

gnome-terminal --geometry 100x44+400+100 --command edd

Links

Project page: https://psss.fedorapeople.org/edd/

Download: http://psss.fedorapeople.org/edd/download/

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

Git repo: https://github.com/psss/edd

File issues: https://github.com/psss/edd/issues/new

Names

edd is the abbreviation of EDit clipboarD.

psss is the nick of Petr Šplíchal (author).