rssturning my clipboard into a blockquote on Linux#source
I like markdown. I use Obsidian a lot, and write a lot in GitHub issues. Something useful I usually do is quote other people's words, so in markdown it would look like:
The Met office said
> it will definitely snow tonight
>
> like... 100%
I found that I can use a command xclip to get/set my clipboard on Linux, and I use a lot of sed to do word replacement, so I realised I could copy the text
it will definitely snow tonight
like... 100%
and then run this command in my terminal (xclip gets/sets the clipboard, sed replaces ^ (the start of each line) with > )
xclip -selection c -o | sed "s/^/> /" | xclip -selection c
which would get my clipboard, replace the start of each line with a quote, and set the clipboard, setting the clipboard to:
it will definitely snow tonight
like... 100%
I've set aliases for these commands so I can use them quickly in my terminal as:
alias getclip='xclip -selection c -o'
alias setclip='xclip -selection c'
alias quote='getclip | sed "s/^/> /" | setclip'
but also I created a keyboard shortcut in Gnome, CTRL + SUPER + Q, which will quote my clipboard. I had to set the shortcut to run bash -c 'xclip -selection c -o | sed "s/^/> /" | xclip -selection c' as I don't think pipes sit well in shortcuts.
But now I can really easily...
quooooooooote