From 559e75d16bc039207461683c7120bb9ab03fd4b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timmy Keller <tjk@tjkeller.xyz>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 16:11:39 -0500
Subject: pdfautocompile script

---
 misc/pdfautocompile | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'misc')

diff --git a/misc/pdfautocompile b/misc/pdfautocompile
index d44ec3f..3c0d8f4 100755
--- a/misc/pdfautocompile
+++ b/misc/pdfautocompile
@@ -1,2 +1,39 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-echo "$1" | entr pdflatex "$1" || echo "entr or LaTeX is not installed!"
+interactiveopt() {
+	# Usage: interactiveopt "options" "prompt" "maxopts (if unset than equal to inf)" "col"
+	# Purpose: give the user a numbered list of options. User can specify multiple choices. User can specify either the number or the name of the option.
+	# Output: saved in variable "opt"
+	unset opt # This won't be set if using recursion, do it in a while loop instead
+	while [ -z $opt ] 2>/dev/null; do
+		# Column option
+		[ -n "$4" ] && [ "$4" = "col" ] \
+			&& echo "$1" | nl -s': ' | column \
+			|| echo "$1" | nl -s': '
+		# Parse user input
+		read -p "$2" choices \
+			&& choices="$(echo $choices | cut -d' ' -f1-$3)"
+		for choice in $choices; do
+			case "$choice" in
+				[0-9]*)	opt="$(echo "$1" | head -"$(echo $choice | tr -cd '[:digit:]')" | tail -1) $opt"	;;
+				*) 	opt="$(echo "$1" | grep "^$choice$" 2>/dev/null) $opt"					;;
+			esac || ( echo "Invalid option \"$choice\"" && undet opt && break ) # Why wont this unset opt or break???????
+		done
+	done
+}
+
+listfiles() {
+	pids=$(xdotool search --class "Vim")
+	for pid in $pids; do
+		names="$(xdotool getwindowname $pid | grep '\.tex')\n$names"
+		#$openfiles="$(echo "$name" | cut -d' ' -f1)\n$openfiles"
+		#$openfilepaths="$(echo "$name" | awk -F'[()]' '{ print $2 }')\n$openfiles"
+	done
+	#file="$(echo $openfiles | grep "^$1")"
+	[ -z "$file" ] \
+		&& interactiveopt "$(echo $openfiles | sort -bu | tail +2)" "Which file to autocompile? " 1 \
+		&& file="$opt"
+}
+
+[ -e "$1" ] && file="$1" || listfiles
+
+echo "$file" | entr pdflatex "$file" || echo "entr or LaTeX is not installed!"
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