* On 29 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > I often find that I want to copy text from an email into another file. > Rather than reaching for the mouse to highlight the text and then start > my editor and paste it, I just forward the message to myself without > actually sending it. Since my email editor is vim, I can then yank the > text from the almost-forwarded message and then open the other file and > paste it. Then quit the original file and press 'n' to avoid sending it. > Anyone have an even easier hack?
Do you have a command-line tool that copies stdin to your pasteboard or clipboard? (MacOS X has pbcopy. When I used X11, I used an Xaw program called 'xcb' for similar purposes. I see references to something called 'xclip', but I don't know what's current in the window managers people use these days.) Use that as your print command, or embed it in a macro to accomplish the same via pipe-message or decode-copy. In the latter approach you can add dressing to select only the decoded message body, etc. You likely can paste with a similar solution -- pbpaste on MacOS, or xcb/xclip/whatever on X11. '!!pbpaste' is pretty easy vs. ':r /tmp/some-draft-file'. -- David Champion * d...@uchicago.edu * IT Services * University of Chicago
