dmenu_snips: Copy text blocks to clipboard using dmenu

dmenu_snips.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import argparse
+import locale
+import os
+import subprocess
+import yaml
+
+
+SNIPS_PATH = os.path.expanduser(os.environ.get('SNIPS_PATH', '~/.snips'))
+
+
+codec = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+
+
+def dmenu(options, args=None):
+    cmd = ['dmenu']
+    if args:
+        cmd += args
+    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    with p.stdout:
+        with p.stdin:
+            for option in options:
+                p.stdin.write(option.encode(codec) + b'\n')
+        return p.stdout.read().strip().decode(codec)
+
+
+def load_snips(path):
+    with open(path) as f:
+        return yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+
+def xclip(data, selection='clipboard'):
+    cmd = ['xclip', '-selection', selection]
+    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
+    with p.stdin:
+        p.stdin.write(data.encode(codec))
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'snips', nargs='?', default=SNIPS_PATH,
+        help='Path to snips YAML document',
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--selection', '-s', default='clipboard',
+        help='X11 selection (clipboard) to use',
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+    snips = load_snips(args.snips)
+    selected = dmenu(sorted(snips.keys()), ['-i'])
+    xclip(snips[selected], args.selection)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()