Major update: instead of defining all the helper functions as static

C-strings prefixed to commands (modified by the Makefile), the helper
functions are now standalone scripts in the helpers/ dir, which gets
added to "$PATH" when running bb.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/helpers/bbtargets b/helpers/bbtargets
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index 0000000..1862ca0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpers/bbtargets
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+#!/bin/sh
+# If the user is doing something ambiguous, like selecting a bunch of files,
+# moving the cursor off of those files, then doing an action, this will ask
+# what they mean to target, then output either 'cursor' or 'selected'.
+#     Usage: targets "$BBCURSOR" "$@"
+cursor="$1"
+shift
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+    for f in "$@"; do
+        if [ "$f" = "$cursor" ]; then
+            intended='Selected files'
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+else
+    intended='Cursor file'
+fi
+
+[ -z "$intended" ] && intended="$(printf '%s\0' 'Cursor file' 'Selected files' 'Both' | bbpick 'Which do you want to delete? ')"
+
+case "$intended" in
+    Cursor*) echo cursor ;;
+    Selected*) echo selected ;;
+    Both) echo both ;;
+esac