From df4b816db766d5baf0b2c55195985de6944fc2fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yory8 <>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:18:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(demon): make max-items filter more robust

---
 demon.go | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/demon.go b/demon.go
index b977fe0..05d9a39 100644
--- a/demon.go
+++ b/demon.go
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ func listen(history []string, histfile string, persist bool, max int) {
 		l := len(history)
 
 		if l > 0 {
-
 			// wl-paste will always give back the last copied text
 			// (as long as the place we copied from is still running)
 			if history[l-1] == text {
@@ -73,15 +72,13 @@ func listen(history []string, histfile string, persist bool, max int) {
 				continue
 			}
 
-			if l == max {
-				// we know that at any given time len(history) cannot be bigger than max,
-				// so it's enough to drop the first element
-				history = history[1:]
+			if l >= max {
+				// usually just one item, but more if we reduce our --max-items value
+				history = history[l-max+1:]
 			}
 
 			// remove duplicates
 			history = filter(history, text)
-
 		}
 
 		history = append(history, text)