From 8f622f11434c876f6ff50e4a1b8aa021ca24fced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew <andreasohaodha@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:02:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [wl_vimshot.sh]: Add wl_vimshot.sh

---
 README.md     |  1 +
 wl_vimshot.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 wl_vimshot.sh

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bfe2f40..1556d9f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
  - `webcam.sh`: one-line script that uses the video viewer program `mpv` as a webcam by using `/dev/video0` as its video file source.
  - `wifi_dmenu.sh`: script to connect to an available WiFi network with a dmenu prompt. 
  - `wl_screenshot.sh`: screenshot script for Wayland with selection using `grim` & `slurp` that both saves the image file and adds the image to the `wl-copy` clipboard, and notifies the user of the screenshot via `notify-send`.
+ - `wl_vimshot.sh`: Wayland script to take a wait a few seconds before taking a screenshot to the filepath in the clipboard, for use as part of my LaTeX note-taking workflow in Vim: create the figure environment, copy the file name, invoke this script, and select the region in the source material to be screenshotted.
  - `x11_screenshot.sh`: screenshot script for X11 with selection using `maim` that both saves the image file and adds the image to the `xclip` clipboard, and notifies the user
  of the screenshot via `notify-send`.
  - `x11_vimshot.sh`: X11 script to take a wait a few seconds before taking a screenshot to the filepath in the clipboard, for use as part of my LaTeX note-taking workflow in Vim: create the figure environment, copy the file name, invoke this script, and select the region in the source material to be screenshotted.
diff --git a/wl_vimshot.sh b/wl_vimshot.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..53cfd45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wl_vimshot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Script to take a wait a few seconds before taking a screenshot to the filepath in the clipboard.
+# For use as part of my LaTeX note-taking workflow in Vim: create the figure environment, copy the file name, invoke this script, and select the region in the source material to be screenshotted.
+
+basename=$(basename "$0")
+filepath=$(wl-paste)
+
+# check if the filepath is absolute or relative, and if relative, make absolute
+if [ "${filepath#\/}" = "$filepath" ] || [ "${filepath#\~}" = "$filepath" ]; then
+    filepath="$(pwd)/$filepath"
+fi
+
+notify-send "$basename" "Taking screenshot to $filepath"
+
+sleep 5
+grim -g "$(slurp)" "$filepath"
+
+notify-send --icon "$filepath" "$basename" "Screenshot saved to: $filepath"