clipmenu

clipmenud

#!/bin/bash

get_first_line() {
    # Args:
    # - , the file or data
    # - , optional, the line length limit

    data=${1?}
    line_length_limit=${2-300}

    # We look for the first line matching regex /./ here because we want the
    # first line that can provide reasonable context to the user. That is, if
    # you have 5 leading lines of whitespace, displaying " (6 lines)" is much
    # less useful than displaying "foo (6 lines)", where "foo" is the first
    # line in the entry with actionable context.
    awk -v limit="$line_length_limit" '
        BEGIN { printed = 0; }

        printed == 0 && NF {
            {{&blob}} = substr({{&blob}}, 0, limit);
            printf("%s", {{&blob}});
            printed = 1;
        }

        END {
            if (NR > 1) {
                print " (" NR " lines)";
            } else {
                printf("\n");
            }
        }' <<< "$data"
}

debug() {
    if (( DEBUG )); then
        printf '%s\n' "$@" >&2
    fi
}

cache_dir=/tmp/clipmenu.$USER/
cache_file=$cache_dir/line_cache

# It's ok that this only applies to the final directory.
# shellcheck disable=SC2174
mkdir -p -m0700 "$cache_dir"

declare -A last_data
declare -A last_filename

while sleep "${CLIPMENUD_SLEEP:-0.5}"; do

    for selection in clipboard primary; do
        if type -p xsel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            debug 'Using xsel'
            data=$(xsel --logfile /dev/null -o --"$selection"; printf x)
        else
            debug 'Using xclip'
            data=$(xclip -o -sel "$selection"; printf x)
        fi

        debug "Data before stripping: $data"

        # We add and remove the x so that trailing newlines are not stripped.
        # Otherwise, they would be stripped by the very nature of how POSIX
        # defines command substitution.
        data=${data%x}

        debug "Data after stripping: $data"

        if [[ $data != *[^[:space:]]* ]]; then
            debug "Skipping as clipboard is only blank"
            continue
        fi

        if [[ ${last_data[$selection]} == "$data" ]]; then
            debug 'Skipping as last selection is the same as this one'
            continue
        fi

        # If we were in the middle of doing a selection when the previous poll
        # ran, then we may have got a partial clip.
        possible_partial=${last_data[$selection]}
        if [[ $possible_partial && $data == "$possible_partial"* ]]; then
            debug "$possible_partial is a possible partial of $data"
            debug "Removing ${last_filename[$selection]}"
            rm -- "${last_filename[$selection]}"
        fi

        last_data[$selection]=$data
        last_filename[$selection]=$filename

        first_line=$(get_first_line "$data")
        filename="$cache_dir/$(cksum <<< "$first_line")"
        debug "Writing $data to $filename"
        printf '%s' "$data" > "$filename"

        debug "Writing $first_line to $cache_file"
        printf '%s\n' "$first_line" >> "$cache_file"

        if ! (( NO_OWN_CLIPBOARD )) && [[ $selection != primary ]]; then
            # Take ownership of the clipboard, in case the original application
            # is unable to serve the clipboard request (due to being suspended,
            # etc).
            #
            # Primary is excluded from the change of ownership as applications
            # sometimes act up if clipboard focus is taken away from them --
            # for example, urxvt will unhilight text, which is undesirable.
            #
            # We can't colocate this with the above copying code because
            # https://github.com/cdown/clipmenu/issues/34 requires knowing if
            # we would skip first.
            if type -p xsel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                xsel --logfile /dev/null -o --"$selection" | xsel -i --"$selection"
            else
                xclip -o -sel "$selection" | xclip -i -sel "$selection"
            fi
        fi
    done
done