#dpaste

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For the past couple years, I've switched back and forth between TextMate and VIM as my primary editor. Lately, I've been on a huge TextMate kick and decided to see what all I could do to customize it. Python, being my primary language, is what I wanted to write my scripts in. However, most of the TextMate bundles are written in Ruby (a language I don't at all understand -- it looks crazy to me). After much digging around in the source of some of these bundles and pecking through Ruby to see how it's interacting with TextMate, I was able come up with a little script.

The second point I'd like to make it that I use dpaste.com (a code pastebin) on a daily basis. I know TextMate has built in support for pasting to its own pastebin site, but I don't like it as well at dpaste (also, dpaste is a django site, a plus for me).

I decided to set out and write my own script to paste code to dpaste.com from within TextMate. Right now, it's far from perfect. Every time I look at it, I see parts that I know I should handle better for errors, etc. But it works for me right now and I have more pressing issues to deal with.

So here is the code.

#!/usr/bin/python import os, sys, urllib, re, commands class dpaster(object): def __init__(self): self.mode_conversion = {'Python': 'Python', 'Python Django': 'Python', 'SQL': 'Sql', 'HTML (Django)': 'DjangoTemplate', 'JavaScript': 'JScript', 'CSS': 'Css', 'XML': 'Xml', 'Diff': 'Diff', 'Ruby': 'Ruby', 'Ruby on Rails': 'Rhtml', 'Apache': 'Apache', 'Schell Script (Bash)': 'Bash', 'Plain Text':''} self.TM_SELECTED_TEXT = os.environ.get('TM_SELECTED_TEXT', '') self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH = os.environ.get('TM_SUPPORT_PATH', '') self.TM_MODE = os.environ.get('TM_MODE', '') if self.TM_SELECTED_TEXT and self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH and self.TM_MODE: self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH = os.path.join(self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH, "lib") if not self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH in os.environ: sys.path.insert(0, self.TM_SUPPORT_PATH) else: self.dialog("Error!", "You need to select text first.") raise "Required environment variables are not present" if self.TM_MODE in self.mode_conversion: self.TM_MODE = self.mode_conversion[self.TM_MODE] else: self.dialog("Warning!", "dpaste.com does not currently support this language.\nPasting as Plain Text.") self.TM_MODE = '' self.url = "dpaste.com" self.id_regex = re.compile('dpaste: #(\d+)') def ping(self): ping_re = re.compile('0% packet loss') if ping_re.search(commands.getstatusoutput('ping -c 1 %s' % self.url)[1]): return True return False def paste(self): data = urllib.urlencode({'content': self.TM_SELECTED_TEXT, 'language':self.TM_MODE, 'title': '', 'poster':'TextMate Script'}) req = urllib.urlopen('http://%s' % self.url, data) self.post_url = "http://dpaste.com/%s/" % self.id_regex.search(req.read()).groups()[0] def copy(self): os.system("echo %s | pbcopy" % self.post_url) def dialog(self, message, text): os.system("$DIALOG -ep '{messageTitle = \"%s\"; informativeText = \"%s\"; alertStyle = informational;}'" % (message, text)) def successDialog(self): message = "dpaste.com URL" text = "%s\n\nThis URL has been copied to your clipboard." % self.post_url self.dialog(message, text) if __name__ == '__main__': dpaster = dpaster() if dpaster.ping(): dpaster.paste() dpaster.copy() dpaster.successDialog()