Trimmy

"Paste once, run once." — Trimmy is a Raycast extension for cleaning copied shell snippets, wrapped URLs, and path-like text so they are easier to run or paste.

Trimmy was created by steipete.

Commands

• Trim and Copy — cleans the current input and puts the result on your clipboard
• Trim and Paste — cleans the current input and pastes it into the frontmost app
• Trim and Preview — shows the original and trimmed output before you choose what to do next

Input resolution

By default, Trimmy uses this order:

1. selected text in the frontmost app
2. selected Finder item path (macOS only)
3. clipboard text

You can disable that behavior per command with the Prefer Selection / Finder preference if you want strict clipboard-only behavior.

Aggressiveness

• Low (safer): most conservative; best when you only want very obvious command snippets flattened
• Normal: works well for most README and blog-style command snippets; default for Preview Trim
• High (eager): trims more aggressively, even when the command signal is weaker; default for Trim and Trim and Paste

Cleaning behavior

The current implementation ports the most useful Trimmy features for Raycast:

• strips shell prompt prefixes like $ and #
• repairs wrapped URLs that were split across lines
• quotes path-like text with spaces when it looks safe to do so
• removes copied terminal box-drawing characters
• detects likely multi-line commands using prefixes, punctuation, pipelines, continuations, and indentation
• flattens matching commands into a single space-normalized line

Preview mode

Preview Trim uses a Raycast view command to show the original input and trimmed output, inspired by the selection-preview pattern used in Raycast's JSON Format extension.

Known limitations

• Detection is heuristic, not shell-parser based.
• Path quoting is intentionally conservative and skips strings that look like full shell commands with flags.
• Box-drawing cleanup is best-effort and optimized for copied terminal snippets.