Paste Javascript snippet as Coffeescript into the current vim buffer
Often you find a snippet of javascript that you want to use but have to first convert it coffeescript. Forget waiting for http://js2coffee.org to load. Now you can paste the javascript directly into a vim buffer and have it automagically converted into coffeescript:
1: Install https://github.com/rstacruz/js2coffee
npm install -g js2coffee
2: Run this vim command
:read !pbpaste | js2coffee
This will take whatever is on the system clipboard, pipe it through js2coffee and append it to the cursor location in the current vim buffer.
NOTE:
This only works for OSX.
For linux see this https://coderwall.com/p/kdoqkq.
For windows (???).
3: (extra credit) Turn it into a handy command
Past this into your .vimrc
function! PasteAsCoffee()
:read !pbpaste | js2coffee
endfunction
:command! PasteAsCoffee :call PasteAsCoffee()
Now you can just call :PasteAsCoffee
to get the same result as before.
You can even map it to a key command: :map <leader>pc :PasteAsCoffee<CR>
Written by Christian Schlensker
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