Bender

Bending Text

Demo

Usage

greenclip print |  gjs -m "dist/main.js"

or

echo -e 'hello \n 123' |  gjs -m "dist/main.js"

Configuration

Copy config.yaml to ~/.config/bender/config.yaml ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bender/config.yaml)

Available actions:

• replace "<search_val>" "<replace_val>"
• uppercase
• lowercase
• snakecase
• onlyAlphanum
• toHex
• reverse
• removeDiacritics
• extract "" NOTES:
  • '\' in \d, \s extra should escaped like \\s or \\d
  • Regexp flags are not supported

Add new entry for actions

  - label: remove space
    action: replace " " ""

use pipe(|) to use mulitple actions

  - label: enum
    action: snakecase | uppercase

Key bindings

• ESC - close the window
• ENTER - Apply the focused action (print the output to stdout & close the window)
• RIGHT ARROW - Open the actions sidebar
• LEFT ARROW - Close the actions sidebar
• any alphanumeric - search & filter the list
• UP/DOWN ARROWS -
  • navigate through the list (when the actions sidebar is closed)
  • navigate through available actions (when actions sidebar is open with RIGHT ARROW)
• CTRL+<1-9> : On list view
  • print the item (based on position 1-9) to stdout

Dev setup

Install dependencies

• libgtk4
• libadwaita
• gjs - 1.74.2
• meson - 1.0.1

sudo apt install libgtk-4-1 libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev

npm i
npm run build
echo -e "Hello\nBender" | G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all ./bin/bender

Build & Install

Dev build

npm run build
meson setup --prefix=***/path/to/bender/run/ builddir/
meson compile -C builddir/
meson install -C builddir/
echo -e "Hello\nBender" | ./run/bin/com.revathskumar.bender

npm run build
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir
sudo meson install -C builddir

and run it by echo -e "Hello\nBender" | com.revathskumar.bender

Using flatpak

flatpak-builder --force-clean --user --install-deps-from=flathub --repo=repo --install builddir com.revathskumar.bender.yaml
echo -e "Hello\nBender" | flatpak run com.revathskumar.bender

Credits

Inspired by Rofi Based on gjsify/example-gtk4 by Pascal Garber

License

MIT