Pasty - The Clipboard Editor

Edit the text directly on your clipboard (paste bin/whatever) with some built in functions.

Installation

npm install pasty-clipboard-editor

Usage

pasty-clipboard-editor will install a global command pasty to your bin which will be accessible via the command prompt (or run box if you're on Windows). You have some text on your clipboard, and you can call one of the built in functions, or one of your own saved functions and your text is updated.

Built-in commands are:

| Command | Description | |-----------------|---------------------------------------------------| | rep | replaces with a regular expression | | cap | capitalizes or lower cases | | columnAlign | Aligns delimited data by column | | count | counts characters or lines | | dedup | Deduplicates a list | | urlencode | encode/decode a url/xml/base64 | | grep | you know, GREP... | | help | gets help on functions | | insert | converts a delimited text to SQL insert statement | | newid | generates a new UUID | | rep | replaces with a RegExp | | setText | sets the content to the passed in string | | sort | Sorts a list | | xml | Pretty prints xml inside the string |

You can also define your own functions comprised of a set of the above list in a local ~/pasty.json file. An example file is given in the repository.

Pasty will also work via a shell pipe, so echo "test" | pasty rep s x will output text. This is very useful in text editors that work with stdio like VIM.

Pasty in action

Pasty will work on your clipboard, so its macros work for any text editor.