[d1egoaz]

Wow, this is awesome!

Is there any way to make it work without selecting text? (default to all available text on the textarea)

BTW, I changed a few things: emacsclient path and the tmp folder:

  tmp=$(mktemp "/tmp/EditTextinEmacsXXXXXXXX")
  ec=/usr/local/bin/emacsclient
  cat > "$tmp"
  until [ $($ec -q -e '(server-running-p)' 2>/dev/null) == t ]; do
    sleep 1
  done
  $ec -q -c "$tmp"
  rv="$?"
  cat "$tmp"
  if [ $rv -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Something went wrong.  Please find your text in"
    echo "$tmp"
  else
    rm "$tmp"
  fi

[d1egoaz]

I ended forking and creating this https://github.com/d1egoaz/vim-anywhere WIP

[swsieber]

Hmm... I'm not very familiar with this, but couldn't you send a key command to select the entire text (CMD A)?

[d1egoaz]

I'm not very familiar either. But the Automator workflow starts with "receives selected text", so I'm not sure it has access to the current text field

[swsieber]

Did not know that. I've used HammerSpoon on Mac, and you can send key shortcuts with that... you could probably glue them together easily

[d1egoaz]

osascript is our friend

    osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "a" using command down'