vipe-go

A Go implementation of the vipe command from the moreutils package

Usage

command1 | vipe | command2

The following flags are supported:

• --suffix <suffix>, which specifies the file extension of the temporary file
• --editor <path>, which specifies the path to the editor to use, overriding the values of the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables
• --use-exact-path, which disables all special editor path processing and uses the exact value of the editor path as the editor to use
  • Special editor path processing includes the following:
    • Leading and trailing quotes in the editor path allows specifying an editor path with spaces in it, such as "C:\Users\User\folder with space\editor.exe" and "/home/user/directory with space/editor"
      • On Unix, if this is the case, the editor path is passed into the sh command with the -c flag, like this: sh -c "/home/user/directory with space/editor"

The following environment variables are recognized from top to bottom, with the topmost and bottommost environment variables having the lowest and highest priorities respectively:

• EDITOR, which specifies the path to the editor to use
• VISUAL, which also specifies the path to the editor to use

Installation

First, install Go if it's not installed already. Then run the following commands to build:

git clone https://github.com/AlanLuu/vipe-go.git
cd vipe-go
go build

This will create an executable binary called vipe on Linux/macOS and vipe.exe on Windows.

Features

• Compiles into a single executable that can run anywhere, no dependency on Perl
• Supports Windows
  • On Windows, the default editor used by this implementation is notepad.exe
• On non-Windows, the default editor used by this implementation is vi

License

vipe is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0 License.