-c option for vim-anywhere

[sathomson]

Hi Chris. Thanks for the idea of this script: very useful!

I thought a useful addition would be to include a -c option, which copies the contents of the clipboard to the temp file before editing takes place. Thus it is possible to edit a portion of text by first "copy"-ing it to the clipboard, and hitting a new shortcut key that activates the -c option. The text opens in gvim and can be edited, and is passed back to the clipboard as usual. Without the -c option, the script is as before.

Feel free to incorporate this into the main branch if you like.

Best regards,

Scott.

P.S.: I've only done this for Linux so far.

[cknadler]

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the PR. Would this work cross platform (OSX, etc)?

[sathomson]

It can also be done on OSX. Actually, I realised just after making my PR that PR #52 does the same job for Linux and OSX, except that it's achieved with a setting in a file rather than a switch. With the switch it's easy to set up two keybindings, depending on what you want to do at the time.

[cknadler]

Got it. I think I missed #52 when it was created, nice catch. If you can add OSX support and update the readme, I'd definitely be interested in merging this.

[sathomson]

Currently in OSX it should now use the paste-in that #52 used; but there is no switch for this. #52 was using a settings file, but there should be a way to pass an option to the OSX workflow. I'll see if I can do something about this.

[sathomson]

I think it now works on OSX. There are now two workflows that install as user services. The one VimAnywhere-CopyClipboard.workflow adds a second service to which a different shortcut key can be added.

First the user has to copy text to the clipboard before using this. MacVim has a more sophisticated workflow/service (in its Plist.info file inside its .app folder), which allows the user to highlight something and directly edit in MacVim.