copie a simple tool used by Dracon IntelliJ Plugin to copy content of files that should be opened in an editor through $EDITOR or $VISUAL application to a separated file, allowing them to be inspected and modified without sacrificing integration.
copie works by copying the file specified as first argument into the file specified in COPIE_TO environment variable, however, when COPIE_FROM is specified, the data of the file specified by this environment variable is copied into the file specified as first argument. And when both COPIE_FROM and COPIE_TO environment variables are set, the contents of the file of the first one is copied into the file of the second one.
Copies from hello to a new file test.
fish
$ touch hello
$ echo 'Hello world' > hello
$ COPIE_TO=test copie hello
Copies from test to the existing hello.
fish
$ touch hello
$ echo 'Hello world' > hello
$ touch test
$ echo 'Hello world 2' > test
$ COPIE_FROM=test copie hello
Copies from test into hello.
fish
$ touch hello
$ echo 'Hello world' > hello
$ touch test
$ echo 'Hello world 2' > test
$ COPIE_FROM=test COPIE_TO=hello copie
copie is used in Dracon IntelliJ Plugin to extract record text and to send change text to pijul, the most common commands are:
fish
COPIE_TO=/a/tmp/dir/RANDOM_HASH VISUAL="copie" pijul record
fish
COPIE_FROM=/a/tmp/dir/RANDOM_HASH VISUAL="copie" pijul record