Vimcopy

vimcopy.scpt

-- with shell execution from http://neverblog.net/run-unix-commands-in-an-applescript/

tell application "System Events"
	set front_app to item 1 of (get name of processes whose frontmost is true)
end tell


tell application "Terminal"
	-- take the clipboard contents, pass through tr to remove odd newlines, write to vimcopy.txt, open vimcopy with vim, 
	-- the once closed, write vimcopy.txt contents to clipboard and exit
	set vim_tab to do script "pbpaste | tr '\\015\\032' '\\n' > ~/.vimcopy.txt && vim ~/.vimcopy.txt && cat ~/.vimcopy.txt | pbcopy  && exit"
	activate
	delay 0.25
	repeat while busy of vim_tab is true
		delay 0.25
	end repeat
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "q" using {command down}
	end tell
end tell

tell application front_app
	activate
	delay 0.25
	tell application "System Events"
		keystroke "v" using {command down}
	end tell
end tell