clipman/selector.go
2019-09-09 19:25:28 +02:00

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Go

package main
import (
"fmt"
"os/exec"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
func selector(history []string, max int, tool string) error {
// reverse the history
for i, j := 0, len(history)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
history[i], history[j] = history[j], history[i]
}
selected, err := dmenu(history, max, tool)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// serve selection to the OS
err = exec.Command("wl-copy", []string{"--", selected}...).Run()
return err
}
func dmenu(list []string, max int, tool string) (string, error) {
if len(list) == 0 {
return "", nil
}
bin, err := exec.LookPath(tool)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not installed", tool)
}
var args []string
if tool == "dmenu" {
args = []string{"dmenu", "-b",
"-fn",
"-misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso8859-16",
"-l",
strconv.Itoa(max)}
} else {
args = []string{"rofi", "-dmenu",
"-lines",
strconv.Itoa(max)}
}
// dmenu will break if items contain newlines, so we must pass them as literals.
// however, when it sends them back, we need a way to restore them
var escaped []string
guide := make(map[string]string)
for _, original := range list {
repr := fmt.Sprintf("%#v", original)
// dmenu will split lines longer than 1200 something; we cut at 400 to spare memory
max := len(repr) - 1 // drop right quote
maxChars := 400
if max > maxChars {
max = maxChars
}
repr = repr[1:max] // drop left quote
guide[repr] = original
escaped = append(escaped, repr)
}
input := strings.NewReader(strings.Join(escaped, "\n"))
cmd := exec.Cmd{Path: bin, Args: args, Stdin: input}
selected, err := cmd.Output()
if err != nil {
if err.Error() == "exit status 1" {
// dmenu exits with this error when no selection done
return "", nil
}
return "", err
}
trimmed := selected[:len(selected)-1] // drop newline added by dmenu
sel, ok := guide[string(trimmed)]
if !ok {
return "", fmt.Errorf("couldn't recover original string; please report this bug along with a copy of your clipman.json")
}
return sel, nil
}