Am I missing something, but what's the point? about vim-anywhere HOT 2 CLOSED

Once invoked, vim-anywhere will open a buffer. Close it and it's contents are copied to your clipboard and your previous application is refocused.

Thats pretty much what it does. For me, this saves me more than a single keystroke.

Just hotkey -> write -> :wq to have opened a vim buffer and copied it's contents into your clipboard automatically. I'm not sure of a faster way, but then again, if you are, feel free to open an issue with details.

As far as automatically copying original text and pasting result text, I've thought about adding these as configurable options, but they currently aren't implemented. If you have a good idea on how to implement either of these, I'd gladly accept a pull request.

Thanks.

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@cknadler 3 years later :p you did great work so well why not try asking you directly

What do you think of this : add an option like "if the saved file has [p on an empty line] as its last character then paste it automatically, otherwise let the app work like before" ?

The "p" character could be changed to any other in simple variable in the run file.

To give an example, if you want it automatically pasted your file could look like this :

code
bla bla
coder things
p <- this is what I'm talking about

This also means that if in the settings a poweruser put a wildcard instead of a p then it would automatically paste it, which seems to be a sought-after behavior by some.

edit : it seems it can be almost done on linux by adding on line 59-60 of run

if [[ $($TMPFILE|egrep -m 1 .) == "p" ]]; then
        cat $TMPFILE | xclip -selection clipboard  #let's copy too it to be safe
        xclip -selection clipboard -out   # unfortunately this doesn't paste it outside the term and I don't understand why
else 
        cat $TMPFILE | xclip -selection clipboard   # current default 60th line
fi

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