nnn/plugins/preview-tabbed

#!/bin/bash

# Description: tabbed/xembed based file previewer
#
# Note: This plugin needs a "NNN_FIFO" to work. See man.
#
# Shell: Bash (job control is weakly specified in POSIX)
# 
# Dependencies:
#  - tabbed (https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed): xembed host
#  - xterm (or urxvt or st) : xembed client for text-based preview
#  - mpv (https://mpv.io): xembed client for video/audio
#  - sxiv (https://github.com/muennich/sxiv): xembed client for images
#  - zathura (https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura): xembed client for PDF documents
#  - nnn's nuke plugin for text preview and fallback (should be in plugins directory)
#    nuke is a fallback for 'mpv', 'sxiv', and 'zathura', but it has has its own
#    dependencies, see the script itself
#  - vim (or any editor/pager really)
#  - file
#  - xdotool (optional, to keep main window focused)
#
# How to use:
#  First, install the dependencies. Then you need to set a NNN_FIFO path
#  and set a key for the plugin, then start `nnn`:
#
#    $ NNN_FIFO=/tmp/nnn.fifo nnn
#
#  Then in `nnn`, launch the `preview-tabbed` plugin.
#
#  If you provide the same NNN_FIFO to all nnn instances, there will be a
#  single common preview window. I you provide different FIFO path, they
#  will be independent.
#
# How it works:
#   We use `tabbed` [1] as a xembed [2] host, to have a single window
#   owning each previewer window. So each previewer must be a xembed client.
#   For text previewers, this is not an issue, as there are a lot of
#   xembed-able terminal emulator (we default to `xterm`, but examples are
#   provided for `urxvt` and `st`). For graphic preview this can be trickier,
#   but a few popular viewers are xembed-able, we use:
#     - `mpv`: multimedia player, for video/audio preview
#     - `sxiv`: image viewer
#     - `zathura`: PDF viewer
#     - but we allways fallback to `nuke` plugin
#
# [1]: http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
# [2]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html


XDOTOOL_TIMEOUT=2
PAGER=${PAGER:-"vim -R"}
NUKE="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/nnn/plugins/nuke"


if which xterm ; then
    TERMINAL="xterm -into"
elif which urxvt ; then
    TERMINAL="urxvt -embed"
elif which st ; then
    TERMINAL="st -w"
else
    echo "No xembed term found" >&2
fi


term_nuke () {
    # $1 -> $XID, $2 -> $FILE
    $TERMINAL "$1" -e "$NUKE" "$2" &
}

start_tabbed () {
    FIFO="$(mktemp -u)"
    mkfifo "$FIFO"

    tabbed > "$FIFO" &

    jobs # Get rid of the "Completed" entries

    TABBEDPID="$(jobs -p %%)"

    if [ -z "$TABBEDPID" ] ; then
        echo "Can't start tabbed"
        exit 1
    fi

    read -r XID < "$FIFO"

    rm "$FIFO"
}

get_viewer_pid () {
        VIEWERPID="$(jobs -p %%)"
}

previewer_loop () {
    unset -v NNN_FIFO
    # mute from now
    exec >/dev/null 2>&1

    MAINWINDOW="$(xdotool getactivewindow)"

    start_tabbed

    xdotool windowactivate "$MAINWINDOW"

    # Bruteforce focus stealing prevention method,
    # works well in floating window managers like XFCE
    # but make interaction with the preview window harder
    # (uncomment to use):
    #xdotool behave "$XID" focus windowactivate "$MAINWINDOW" &

        while read -r FILE ; do

        jobs # Get rid of the "Completed" entries

        if ! jobs | grep tabbed ; then
            break
        fi

        if [ ! -e "$FILE" ] ; then
            continue
        fi

        if [ -n "$VIEWERPID" ] && jobs -p | grep "$VIEWERPID" ; then
            kill "$VIEWERPID"
        fi

        MIME="$(file -b --mime-type "$FILE")"

        case "$MIME" in
            video/*)
                if which mpv ; then
                    mpv --force-window=immediate --loop-file --wid="$XID" "$FILE" &
                else
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                fi
                ;;
            audio/*)
                if which mpv ; then
                    mpv --force-window=immediate --loop-file --wid="$XID" "$FILE" &
                else
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                fi
                ;;
            image/*)
                if which sxiv ; then
                    sxiv -e "$XID" "$FILE" &
                else
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                fi
                ;;
            application/pdf)
                if which zathura ; then
                    zathura -e "$XID" "$FILE" &
                else
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                fi
                ;;
            inode/directory)
                $TERMINAL "$XID" -e nnn "$FILE" &
                ;;
            text/*)
                if [ -x "$NUKE" ] ; then
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                else
                    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
                    $TERMINAL "$XID" -e $PAGER "$FILE" &
                fi
                ;;
            *)
                if [ -x "$NUKE" ] ; then
                    term_nuke "$XID" "$FILE"
                else
                    $TERMINAL "$XID" -e sh -c "file '$FILE' | $PAGER -" &
                fi
                ;;
        esac
        get_viewer_pid

        # following lines are not needed with the bruteforce xdotool method
        ACTIVE_XID="$(xdotool getactivewindow)"
        if [ $((ACTIVE_XID == XID)) -ne 0 ] ; then
            xdotool windowactivate "$MAINWINDOW"
        else
            timeout "$XDOTOOL_TIMEOUT" xdotool behave "$XID" focus windowactivate "$MAINWINDOW" &
        fi
    done
    kill "$TABBEDPID"
}

if [ ! -r "$NNN_FIFO" ] ; then
    echo "Can't read \$NNN_FIFO ('$NNN_FIFO')"
    exit 1
fi

previewer_loop < "$NNN_FIFO" &
disown