clipman/selector.go
2019-09-29 08:06:01 +00:00

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2.5 KiB
Go

package main
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
func selector(data []string, max int, tool string) (string, error) {
if len(data) == 0 {
return "", errors.New("no data available")
}
// output to stdout and return
if tool == "STDOUT" {
escaped, _ := preprocessData(data, false, true)
os.Stdout.WriteString(strings.Join(escaped, "\n"))
return "", nil
}
bin, err := exec.LookPath(tool)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not installed", tool)
}
var args []string
switch tool {
case "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)}
case "rofi":
args = []string{"rofi", "-dmenu",
"-lines",
strconv.Itoa(max)}
case "wofi":
args = []string{"wofi", "--show", "dmenu", strconv.Itoa(max)}
default:
return "", fmt.Errorf("Unsupported tool: %s", tool)
}
processed, guide := preprocessData(data, true, false)
cmd := exec.Cmd{Path: bin, Args: args, Stdin: strings.NewReader(strings.Join(processed, "\n"))}
b, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
if err != nil {
if err.Error() == "exit status 1" {
// dmenu/rofi exits with this error when no selection done
return "", nil
}
return "", err
}
// Wofi however does not error when no selection is done
if len(b) == 0 {
return "", nil
}
selected := string(b[:len(b)-1]) // drop newline added by dmenu/rofi/wofi
sel, ok := guide[selected]
if !ok {
return "", errors.New("couldn't recover original string")
}
return sel, nil
}
// preprocessData:
// - reverses the data
// - escapes \n (it would break external selectors)
// - optionally it cuts items longer than 400 bytes (dmenu doesn't allow more than ~1200)
// A guide is created to allow restoring the selected item.
func preprocessData(data []string, cutting bool, allowTabs bool) ([]string, map[string]string) {
var escaped []string
guide := make(map[string]string)
for i := len(data) - 1; i >= 0; i-- { // reverse slice
original := data[i]
// escape newlines
repr := strings.ReplaceAll(original, "\\n", "\\\\n") // preserve literal \n
repr = strings.ReplaceAll(repr, "\n", "\\n")
if !allowTabs {
repr = strings.ReplaceAll(repr, "\\t", "\\\\t")
repr = strings.ReplaceAll(repr, "\t", "\\t")
}
// optionally cut to maxChars
const maxChars = 400
if cutting && len(repr) > maxChars {
repr = repr[:maxChars]
}
guide[repr] = original
escaped = append(escaped, repr)
}
return escaped, guide
}