Bind this script to some button and you will be able to edit the selection with (Neo)Vim in any GUI application. The selection will be copied to CLIPBOARD with Ctrl-C emulated by xdotool. The old selection will be preserved in viminsertoldclip.txt file in home. Keyboard layout will be changed to US automatically. After quitting the editor the edited text will be copied to CLIPBOARD and then pasted by emulating Ctrl-V with xdotool, which most likely will replace the previosly selected text, and then the initial content of clipboard will be restored. If something broke (it shouldn't) and text wasn't copied and you want to abort changes, close the terminal window. Then it won't paste and leave your selection alone. You can adapt it to your system by changing the terminal, the window class (i need that to prevent i3wm from tiling the vim window), changing the EDITOR. Note that it works only on X11, if you don't want to completely rewrite the script (which is not that hard). I successfully use it to edit and paste text in LibreOffice.
There is also a vim config that may be useful if you are going to use the script. It provides:
- sentence splitter which splits English/Cyrillic sentences by regex which matches a sequence of ./!/?, whitespace and a capital character. This way you can edit the text more comfortable with vim. Before pasting just use J or sharpjoin to join them back.
- autocmd to soft-wrap text by words on plain text filetype, which you will edit
- layout switcher which will preserve your layout and switch to US when leaving Insert mode and restore the layout when you return to Insert mode.
- mapping to select all text with vA or VA
Make sure you have these installed:
- xkb-switch
- xdotool
- xclip
And these you may want to change as you prefer
- neovim
- kitty
- typograf-cli to sub double dash to long dash and other cool things