clipman/selector.go
2019-04-04 09:04:57 +02:00

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1.7 KiB
Go

package main
import (
"fmt"
"os/exec"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
func selector(history []string, max int) 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)
if err != nil {
// dmenu exits with error when no selection done
return nil
}
// serve selection to the OS
if err := exec.Command("wl-copy", selected).Run(); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}
func dmenu(list []string, max int) (string, error) {
args := []string{"dmenu", "-b",
"-fn",
"-misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-0-iso8859-16",
"-l",
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 to non literals
guide := make(map[string]string)
reprList := []string{}
for _, original := range list {
repr := fmt.Sprintf("%#v", original)
max := len(repr) - 1 // drop right quote
if max > 800 { // dmenu will split lines longer than 1200 something; we cut at 800.
max = 800
}
repr = repr[1:max] // drop left quote
guide[repr] = original
reprList = append(reprList, repr)
}
input := strings.NewReader(strings.Join(reprList, "\n"))
cmd := exec.Cmd{Path: "/usr/bin/dmenu", Args: args, Stdin: input}
selected, err := cmd.Output()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
trimmed := selected[:len(selected)-1] // drop newline
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
}