This is a plugin for Micro Editor v1.4 covering the missed features (at least for me) around Copy/Paste stuff.
There is also CopyBox2 for Micro Editor v2.0.4 (and hopefully newer v2+ ;-))
No idea why, but on some Terminal session Copy/Paste in Micro is not working for me (sometimes allows to Select but not Paste, sometimes just nothing at all). And, finally, Micro Copy/Paste stuff is simply impossible to involve if I'm opening SSH session from my iPad (or at least I did not find until now a Terminal app for iPad allowing to do so ;-))
All in all, it was more simple to write a plugin for Micro to do exactly what I need ;-))
In short, CopyBox allows:
- select Start & End text selection points by keys..
- save/restore text selection to/from file..
- execute text selection or the current line as Bash script..
By default it uses to toggle Selection ON/OFF (allowing to mark the beginning and the end of Selection). This Selection is saved internally, so you can move in editor to any other place and press to copy to the current place previously selected text.
By pressing you can save the Selection to external file. And by pressing you can read the
contents of this file to the current position in editor (pretty useful when you need to copy
or reuse some blocks of your code to other files, etc.). By default /tmp/copybox.out file
name is used, but you can change it via settings.json, for ex:
"copybox_filename" : "/tmp/copybox-dim.out",
or directly within Micro by pressing Ctrl-E and then typing "set copybox_filename ..."
And finally by pressing you can execute the Selected text as shell script -- but this is probably rather my own "life-hack" which I'm trying to have in any editor I'm using ;-)) Generally instead of keeping in notes or in scripts tons of various shell commands I may need to use on the given server (or project, etc.) I'm just keeping them within a dedicated file from which I can start it directly from the editor whenever I need..
For ex. it's enough to place my cursor to any of the following lines and press to execute the given command directly from the editor:
lscpu
fdisk -l | grep Disk
parted -l
And by selecting several lines more commands can be executed together, including more "logic" as well, for ex.:
for nm in host1 host2 host3
do
scp *.tgz $nm:/apps/tmp
done
Along with Fn keys shortcuts assigned by default, there are also few commands added to Micro allowing you to execute them via Ctrl-E prompt (can still solve when your Terminal is not sending Fn keys expected by Micro):
- copy_set -- set Selection begin/end
- copy_paste -- Paste Selection
- copy_save -- Save Selection to file
- copy_load -- Load from file
- copy_exec -- Execute Selection as shell command/script
To install the plugin for Micro v1.4 just copy copybox.lua file into your Micro plugins directory and restart Micro:
mkdir -p ~/.config/micro/plugins/copybox
cp copybox.lua ~/.config/micro/plugins/copybox
To install the plugin for Micro v2.0.4+ copy copybox2.lua file into your Micro v2 plugins directory and restart Micro:
mkdir -p ~/.config/micro/plug/copybox2
cp copybox2.lua ~/.config/micro/plug/copybox2
NOTE: since Micro v2 there is a feature for a plugin to NOT enforce key binding to avoid any conflicts with already assigned actions to the same keys. So CopyBox2 will only "try" to assign F3/F4/F5/F6/F9 keys, and it's up to you to decide if you prefer to use these keys this way or different (by changing key binding).
In case this will help someone else -- have fun & enjoy ;-))
While, to be honest, would love to see these features implemented "natively" in Micro, as it could be done then much more efficiently and better integrated..
Rgds, -Dimitri