dotfiles/bin/choose-emoji-menu

#!/usr/bin/env sh

# Simply create a universal emoji selection list.
# The emoji list should be the following file:
# https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.0/emoji-test.txt

# Dependencies:
# * mktemp - GNU coreutils 8.31
# * wget - GNU Wget 1.20.3 built on linux-gnu
# * sed - GNU sed 4.8
# * awk - GNU Awk 5.0.1
# * rofi - Version: 1.5.4
# * xclip - version 0.13

emoji_file="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-HOME/.local/share}/emoji-list.txt"
if [[ ! -f $emoji_file ]]; then
    notify-send "Downloading the emoji data file."
    wget --output-document "$emoji_file" https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.0/emoji-test.txt
fi

selection=$(awk 'match($0, /([0-9A-F ]+)\s+; fully-qualified\s+# (\S+) E[[:digit:]]+.[[:digit:]]+ (.+)$/, a){print a[2], a[3]}' "$emoji_file" \
    | rofi -dmenu -i -fuzzy -p "Choose an emoji to copy." \
    | awk '{print $1}')

if [ -n "$selection" ]; then
    printf "%s" "$selection" | xclip -selection clipboard && notify-send "'$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)' has been copied to clipboard."
fi