Support multiple line selections in form list

[federico-terzi]

Pasting a user request:

I’m running into a limitation with forms and wanted to see if the answer exists. Below is some example code. Ignore any bad formatting. I’m on mobile. I want the ability to select and arbitrary number of choices. In some cases I might need first choice. Sometimes I’ll need second choice and fourth choice. I might even need all of the four choices.

As far as I can tell, with type:list you can only select a single choice. Is there another type of form that lets you select multiple choices, or perhaps another parameter for the form?

- trigger: ":form"
form: |
  {{choices}}
form_fields:
  choices:
    type: list
    values:
      - First choice
      - Second choice
      - Third choice
      - Fourth choice

[CountCypher]

I'd love to have that feature as well.
My use case: We use espanso to create a little text block for a meeting protocol which states the date and the attendees at the beginning, among other things. With a multi select choice box I could easily pick the attendees to be filled in.

Btw, thanks a lot for your work on this great tool. Couldn't live without it!

[federico-terzi]

@CountCypher Thanks for the kind words and the useful insight! Hopefully, in one of the next releases, I'll be able to add it :)

[emilBeBri]

Hi, how is it going with this? I would love this as well!

[Ducesaro]

Hello, as a van? I think I have the answer and it is that I currently manage forms with drop-down lists where I can select any box to do so, I show you the configuration I have and I hope it can help you

• trigger: "* 92"
  replace: "{{form1.name}};{{form1.name1}};{{form1.name2}};{{form1.fruit}};{{form1.name4}}"
  vars:
  - name: form1
  type: form
  params:
  layout: |-
  Número de celular a borrar: [[name]]
  Cedula a borrar: [[name1]]
  Número donde el cliente se va a registrar: [[name2]]
  Estado (Normal o retirado): [[fruit]]
  Saldo: [[name4]]
  fields:
  name:
  multiline: false
  name1:
  multiline: false
  fruit:
  type: choice
  values:
  - Normal
  - Retirado

[Ducesaro]

[Ducesaro]

This is another setup I have. I hope it works for you

[saif-ellafi]

Hi, I would like to add my vote to support multiple selection (with CTRL+CLICK) in type list
My use case is to be able to concatenate all the selected values and form a sentence made by the choices.

Edit: My current workaround is to repeat the form field many times, but it looks ugly :)

Thanks for the awesome espanso

[emilBeBri]

Hi I’ve made a script that solves this by moving the selection into a bash script instead - only tested on my Manjaro linux box. It uses rofi as input selector, but dmenu or fzf would work too:

#!/bin/bash
# list-selector.sh
# set euo pipefail

# input either a file or something from a pipe
[ $# -ge 1 -a -f "$1" ] && var1="$1" || var1="-"



# var1="$1"
var1=$(cat $var1)


# theregex='[^0-9](\d{1,1})[^0-9]'
# var1=$(
#     cat /home/emil/Dropbox/share/qutebrowser/in-use/bookmarks/urls | rg -o " #\w*-*\w*" |  sort -k2       | uniq  -c | rg  --replace '0$1 '  --passthru --no-line-number "$theregex" | sort -r | rg -o '\d+.*' | 
#     # remove double whitespace
#     sed -r 's/[[:space:]]+/ /g' 
#     )
# # lolecho "$var1"




tags1=$(mktemp)

still_choosing=1



while ((  $still_choosing == 1 )); do
    # lolecho "$still_choosing"


    tmp2=$(mktemp)
    # cat "$1"  > $tmp2
    echo "$var1"  > $tmp2
    # lolcat "$tmp2"


    # if it;s the first the loop runs, just show the entire list
    if [[ -z $(grep '[^[:space:]]' $tags1) ]] ; then

        # choice1=$(cat /home/emil/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt | rg -o "\+\w+" | sort | uniq | rofi -dmenu -i  -p "tekst" -matching normal -sort -sort-method fuzzy)

      choice1=$(echo "$var1" | rofi -dmenu -i  -p "Project:" -matching normal -sort -sort-method fuzzy)
      # choice1=$(cat "$var1" | rofi -dmenu -i  -p "Project:" -matching normal -sort -sort-method fuzzy)
      # lolecho "$choice1"

    # if not, only show the tags that are not already chosen
     else 



      choice1=$(awk 'NR==FNR{++a[$0]} !a[$0]' $tags1 $tmp2  | rofi -dmenu -i  -p "Project" -matching normal -sort -sort-method fuzzy)

     # cat $tags1
     # cat $tmp2
    fi

# if a choice has been made, append it to the tags file
  if [[ ! -z $(echo "$choice1" | grep '[^[:space:]]' ) ]] ; then


    echo $choice1 >> $tags1

    # restart the loop
    still_choosing=1
    choice1=$(echo '')

   else 

    still_choosing=0

  fi


done

cat "$tags1"

put that in your $HOME/bin directory (or where ever else you want in from your $PATH) and then you can use it like this with espanso:

  - trigger: ";test"
    replace: "{{output}}"
    vars:
      - name: "output"
        type: shell
        params:
          cmd: 'echo -e "choice A\nchoiceB\nchoice C\nchoice D" | $HOME/bin/list-selector.sh'

[cristianmtr]

Love Espanso, but I'd really need this too. Any updates?