Wouldn’t it be handy to be able to edit the contents of the clipboard in a text
editor? Yes, it would, or at least I do it all the time. For example, I do it
when I want to copy text from one website to another website, but I need to
reformat it a bit first. For macOS, I have a script called pbedit. It is
super-simple:
#!/bin/bash
pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy
vipe is a small program that launches $EDITOR and allows you to edit the
data piped between two programs. It’s part of
moreutils, which Homebrew users can
install with brew install moreutils. pbpaste and pbcopy are the built-in
macOS command-line tools for pasting and copying the clipboard.
Try this, or if you’re a Linux user, fashion its equivalent with xclip. Soon
you’ll find yourself using it all the time.