Easterhegg: Vimpressing LibreOffice!

Das ist alles nur geklaut und gestohlen,

nur gezogen und geraubt.

Entschuldigung, das hab ich mir erlaubt.

So, you might have noticed that there was no April Fools post from me this, year unlike previous years. One idea, I had was giving LibreOffice vi-key bindings -- except that apparently already exists: vibreoffice. So I went looking for something else and found odpdown by Thorsten, who just started to work on LibreOffice fulltime again, and reading about it I always had the thought that it would be great to be able to run this right from your favourite editor: Vim.

And indeed: That is not hard to do. Here is a very raw video showing how to run presentations right out of vim:

Now, this is a quick hack, Linux only, requires you to have Python3 UNO-bindings installed etc. If you want to play with it: Clone the repo from github and get started. Kudos go out to Thorsten for the original odpdown on which this is piggybagging ("das ist alles nur geklaut"). So: Have fun with this -- I will have to install vibreoffice now.

Originally published on 2015-04-06 07:35:28 on wordpress.

Categories: #libreoffice #odf #ubuntu #vim