Hammerspoon script to easily find the emails of the people I work with

emails.lua

--[[
Name:          Emails
Author:        James Doyle <james2doyle@gmail.com>
Description:   Easily find the emails of the people I work with
Demo:          <None>
Installation:  Just require this file in your Hammerspoon init.lua file
Usage:
    Press the keybinding (ctrl+shift+E) and filter the results
    Selecting one copies it to your clipboard
]]--

-- Array to store the statuses
local data_table = {}
data_table["person.name@email.com"] = "Person Name"
-- etc...
-- etc...
-- etc...

local pasteboard = require("hs.pasteboard") -- http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.pasteboard.html

hs.hotkey.bind({"shift", "ctrl"}, 'E', function ()
  local chooser = hs.chooser.new(function(selection)
    if selection.code ~= nil then
      hs.eventtap.keyStrokes(selection.code)
      pasteboard.setContents(selection.code)
    end
  end)

  -- build a table of choices
  local choices = {}

  -- sort them by status code
  for k,v in hs.fnutils.sortByKeys(data_table) do
    table.insert(choices, {
      ["code"] = k, -- gets used for the copying
      ["text"] = v, -- shown to the user to filter
    })
  end

  chooser:choices(choices)
  chooser:show()
end)