;; Author: William Carroll ;;; Commentary: ;; scrot is a Linux utility for taking screenshots. ;;; Code: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Dependencies ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (require 'f) (require 'string) (require 'ts) (require 'clipboard) (require 'kbd) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Library ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (defconst scrot/screenshot-directory "~/Downloads" "The default directory for screenshot outputs.") (defconst scrot/path-to-executable "/usr/bin/scrot" "Path to the scrot executable.") (defconst scrot/output-format "screenshot_%H:%M:%S_%Y-%m-%d.png" "The format string for the output screenshot file. See scrot's man page for more information.") (defun scrot/copy-image (path) "Use xclip to copy the image at PATH to the clipboard. This currently only works for PNG files because that's what I'm outputting" (call-process "xclip" nil nil nil "-selection" "clipboard" "-t" "image/png" path) (message (string-format "[scrot.el] Image copied to clipboard!"))) (defmacro scrot/call (&rest args) "Call scrot with ARGS." `(call-process ,scrot/path-to-executable nil nil nil ,@args)) (defun scrot/fullscreen () "Screenshot the entire screen." (interactive) (let ((screenshot-path (f-join scrot/screenshot-directory (ts-format scrot/output-format (ts-now))))) (scrot/call screenshot-path) (scrot/copy-image screenshot-path))) (defun scrot/select () "Click-and-drag to screenshot a region. The output path is copied to the user's clipboard." (interactive) (let ((screenshot-path (f-join scrot/screenshot-directory (ts-format scrot/output-format (ts-now))))) (scrot/call "--select" screenshot-path) (scrot/copy-image screenshot-path))) (provide 'scrot) ;;; scrot.el ends here