maxkueng
commented
6 years ago Hi! Glad you like vmd.
vmd supports reading from stdin. So instead specifying the path to a file you can make vmd read from stdin like this:
cat somefile.md | vmd or echo "**hello**" | vmd.
In the same way you can pipe the contents of your clipboard directly in to vmd:
xclip -o -selection clipboard | vmd
You may not want to type this all the time so you can define an alias in your bash config like this:
alias clipmd="xclip -o -selection c | vmd" and then just type clipmd to render the markdown that's in your clipboard.
This is how it works on Linux and if you don't have xclip installed it's available in every repository. apt install xclip or pacman -S xclip or how ever it work on your distro.
If you have a Mac it seems the command is called pbpaste: pbpaste | vmd (I don't have a Mac so I haven't tried this, I just googled it).
On Windows I have no idea but I'm sure there's a program or command to do this somehow.
If this works for you please close the issue. If not it'd be great if you could explain your use case a bit more in detail.
motine
Great work guys! Just great. I love vmd.
Here is an idea: instead of opening a file, I would like to be able to paste from the clipboard. I often only need to print a part of a document. It is tedious to create a new file and then export this new file.