Copy/Paste in node

[Xavi Ramirez]

I was recently doing a lot of work in REPL and I found myself
constantly needing to copy/paste various bits of input/output from my
text editor to the REPL and vise versa. Using the mouse got pretty
tedious, so I created a quick module called node-copy-paste that wraps
pbpaste/pbcopy (as well as xclip [linux] and clip [windows]):

https://github.com/xavi-/node-copy-paste

Thought I'd share it with you guys.

Thanks,
Xavi

[Domenic Denicola]

Very cool; I'm a big fan of these kind of utilities. See e.g. https://github.com/domenic/opener

A few points of constructive criticism:
* Putting "node-" in the package name is generally bad practice. As a GitHub repo name it's fine, but in package.json it should be just "copy-paste"
* Exposing global functions is not great either. Why not just export the `copy` and `paste` methods from your package's main module?

[Xavi Ramirez]

Good first point, I'll make the change.

As for the second point, I expose `copy` and `paste` globally for the
sake of connivence. When I'm in the REPL, I simply what to type
`require("copy-paste)` and be done with it. Connivence is also why
`paste` synchronously returns a value instead of using a callback.

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