hackernews.tmux

#!/bin/bash

# get current dir
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd)"
SCRIPT_DIR="$DIR/scripts"

# get variables
. $SCRIPT_DIR/variables.sh

# Uses news.sh to acquire current headline
# then formats it, and replaces all #{headline}
# instances with the formatted headline.

headline="#(bash $DIR/scripts/news.sh)"

format_status() { # Takes an argument and returns formatted
                # status. Tested options are status-right
  option=$1     # and status-left

  current_status="$(tmux show-option -gqv $option)"

  echo "${current_status/\#\{headline\}/${headline}}"

}

tmux set-option -gq status-right "$(format_status "status-right")"

tmux set-option -gq status-left "$(format_status "status-left")"

# Set options, only if they're not already set (-o flag)
tmux set-option -gqo @hackernews-offset 0
tmux set-option -gqo @headline-max-chars 80
tmux set-option -gqo @hackernews-scroll false
tmux set-option -gqo @hackernews-period 2

# Keybinds; Feel free to customize them

if [ "$scroll" = "true" ]; then
  tmux bind \> run "$DIR/scripts/inc.sh"\\\; refresh-client -S
  tmux bind \< run "$DIR/scripts/dec.sh"\\\; refresh-client -S
else
  tmux unbind \>
  tmux unbind \<
fi

if [ -n "$browser" ]; then
  if type "$browser" > /dev/null; then
    tmux bind h new-window "$browser \$(bash $DIR/scripts/urls.sh)"
  fi
elif which xdg-open > /dev/null; then
  tmux bind h new-window -d "echo xdg-open \\\$\(. $DIR/scripts/urls.sh\) | bash"
fi