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modified version of snippy which features easier installation, follows symlinks, bashdown templates and automatic detection of cli vs window
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # video demo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90xoathBYfk | |
| # written by "mhwombat": https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71938&p=2 | |
| # Based on "snippy" by "sessy" | |
| # (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71938) | |
| # | |
| # You will also need "dmenu", "xsel" and "xdotool". Get them from your linux | |
| # distro in the usual way. | |
| # | |
| # To use: | |
| # 1. Create the directory ~/.snippy | |
| # | |
| # 2. Create a file in that directory for each snippet that you want. | |
| # The filename will be used as a menu item, so you might want to | |
| # omit the file extension when you name the file. | |
| # | |
| # TIP: If you have a lot of snippets, you can organise them into | |
| # subdirectories under ~/.snippy. | |
| # | |
| # TIP: The contents of the file will be pasted asis, so if you | |
| # don't want a newline at the end when the text is pasted, don't | |
| # put one in the file. | |
| # | |
| # 3. Bind a convenient key combination to this script. | |
| # | |
| # TIP: If you're using XMonad, add something like this to xmonad.hs | |
| # ((mod4Mask, xK_s), spawn "/path/to/snippy") | |
| # | |
| DIR=${HOME}/.snippy | |
| APPS="xdotool xsel dmenu" | |
| DMENU_ARGS="-b" | |
| TMPFILE="/tmp/.snippy.tmp" | |
| XSEL_ARGS="--clipboard --input" | |
| # smarty like template engine which executes inline bash in (bashdown) strings (replaces variables with values e.g.) | |
| # @link http://github.com/coderofsalvation/bashdown | |
| # @dependancies: sed cat | |
| # @example: echo 'hi $NAME it is $(date)' | bashdown | |
| # fetches a document and interprets bashsyntax in string (bashdown) templates | |
| # @param string - string with bash(down) syntax (usually surrounded by ' quotes instead of ") | |
| bashdown(){ | |
| IFS=''; cat - | while read line; do | |
| [[ "$line" =~ '$' ]] && line="$(eval "echo \"$( echo "$line" | sed 's/"/\\"/g')\"")"; | |
| echo "$line" | |
| done | |
| } | |
| init(){ | |
| for APP in $APPS; do | |
| which $APP &>/dev/null || { | |
| read -p "install the following required utils? : $APPS (y/n)" reply | |
| [[ "$reply" == "y" ]] && sudo apt-get install ${APPS}; | |
| } | |
| done | |
| [[ ! -d "$DIR" ]] && { | |
| echo -e "created $DIR\n"; | |
| mkdir "$DIR"; | |
| printf 'hi it is $(date)' > "$DIR""/test"; | |
| } | |
| return 0 | |
| } | |
| run(){ | |
| cd ${DIR} | |
| # Use the filenames in the snippy directory as menu entries. | |
| # Get the menu selection from the user. | |
| FILE=`find . -type f | grep -v '^\.$' | sed 's!\.\/!!' | /usr/bin/dmenu ${DMENU_ARGS}` | |
| if [ -f ${DIR}/${FILE} ]; then | |
| # Put the contents of the selected file into the paste buffer. | |
| cat ${DIR}/${FILE} | bashdown > $TMPFILE | |
| xsel ${XSEL_ARGS} < $TMPFILE | |
| # Paste into the current application. | |
| [[ -t 0 ]] && xdotool key ctrl+shift+v || xdotool key ctrl+v # cli or gui paste | |
| fi | |
| } | |
| init && run |
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Really usefull. I was looking for something like that for a long time.
Nevertheless there's a litte bug that caused some confusion for me. When you close the dmenu with esc to abort snippet insertion the script inserted itself. I fixed that behaviour adding
between line 72 and 73 ;)