Copy tmux selection as html (colored)

generate_copy_html_cmd.py

#! /usr/bin/python3


# Formats taken from the ones that Jetbrains IDEs use.
HTML_FORMATS = (
    "text/html;charset=UTF-16",
    "text/html;charset=UTF-16BE",
    "text/html;charset=UTF-16LE",
    "text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1",
    "text/html;charset=US-ASCII",
    "text/html",
)

TEXT_FORMATS = (
    # "text/rtf",
    "UTF8_STRING",
    "TEXT",
    "STRING",
    "text/plain;charset=UTF-16",
    "text/plain;charset=UTF-8",
    "text/plain;charset=UTF-16BE",
    "text/plain;charset=UTF-16LE",
    "text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1",
    "text/plain;charset=US-ASCII",
    "text/plain",
    "text/plain;charset=unicode",
)

inner_command = (
    r"tmux capture-pane -ep "
    r"-S #{e|-|:#{selection_start_y},#{history_size}} "
    r"-E #{e|-|:#{selection_end_y},#{history_size}} "
    r"| head -c -#{e|-|:#{pane_width},#{selection_end_x}} | tail -c +#{selection_start_x}"  # TODO: This doesn't count escape sequences properly
    r"| aha --pink "
)


ESCAPED_SEMICOLON = r"\;"
pipe_command = (
    " | ".join(
        f"xclip -selection clipboard -t {html_format.replace(r';',ESCAPED_SEMICOLON )} -f"
        for html_format in HTML_FORMATS
    )
    + " > /dev/null"
)
cmd = f"bash -c \"$(tmux display-message -p '#{{?#{{&&:#{{selection_present}},#{{selection_active}}}},{inner_command},}} | {pipe_command}')\""


# [[ $0 != "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && sourced=1 || sourced=0


def main():
    # Two functions
    # 1. Get buffer selection from tmux (plain-text)
    # 2. Get capture output from tmux
    # 3. Cut the extra characters from the capture
    # 4. Convert the capture output to html
    # 5. Set all the relevant xclip data types
    print(cmd)
    pass


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()