stack-ctrl-c

Copies a random code block from StackOverflow to the clipboard.

Inspired by:

How to use

• Create and activate a Python3 virtual environment
• Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run python ctrlc.py
• Compile with python -m nuitka --onefile --linux-onefile-icon icon.png ctrlc.py
• Move binary to your bin folder, e.g. $HOME/bin
• Run ctrlc.bin
  • To speed things up, bind this to a keyboard shortcut in your window manager (see screenshot below for XFCE)!
• Paste with ctrl+v!

Important!

• Needs a clipboard manager. e.g. xsel or xclip on GNU/Linux
• nuitka needs chrpath to be installed on your system, e.g. sudo pacman -S chrpath

TODO

• Create flow to trigger via keyboard shortcut.
• Package to a distributable binary.

References

Would not be possible without these gems:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/24559946/
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/22284921/