.jekyll bookmarklet

Handy alert with copy/paste-able yaml front matter of current page and text selection.

See it here.

Credits

Created with bookmarkleter by @chriszarate
Code uses jquery.selection by @madapaja

<p>Drag the
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bookmarklet to your toolbar, then go to a page, select some text and click it (text selection doesn't work on some sites, e.g. github &#128534;).</p>

<p>You get an alert with handy text to copy. That's all there is to it.</p>