From 9f4262566c886cb3122471169ab733ccf0122ec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=84min=20Baumeler?= <amin@indyfac.ch>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:37:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] improved: user prompts

---
 src/main.sh          |  8 ++++----
 src/sh/send.sh       | 14 +++++++++++---
 src/sh/theme.sh      |  6 ++++++
 src/sh/userprompt.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/sh/varia.sh      | 45 --------------------------------------------
 5 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/sh/userprompt.sh
 delete mode 100644 src/sh/varia.sh

diff --git a/src/main.sh b/src/main.sh
index 6a2f9fc..2ba0a7b 100755
--- a/src/main.sh
+++ b/src/main.sh
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ set -eu
 # preview functions
 . "sh/preview.sh"
 
-# varia functions
-. "sh/varia.sh"
+# userprompt functions
+. "sh/userprompt.sh"
 
 # tags
 . "sh/tags.sh"
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ if [ "${1:-}" = "--open-part" ]; then
   [ "$res" ] || exit
   tmpfile=$(mktemp)
   nm_message_get_part "$messageid" "$res" > "$tmpfile"
-  if ynprompt "Are you sure you want to open this file?" "$($0 --preview-file-info "$tmpfile")"; then
+  if $0 --preview-file-info "$tmpfile" | ynprompt "Are you sure you want to open this file?"; then
     # TODO: should we clean up at some point?
     open "$tmpfile" >/dev/null 2>/dev/stdout
   fi
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ if [ "${1:-}" = "--purge" ]; then
   shift
   query="tag:$TAG_DEL and ($(echo " $*" | sed "s/\s\(\S\)/ thread:\1/g"))"
   files=$(nm_files_all "$query")
-  if ynprompt "Are you sure you want to purge these files?" "$files"; then
+  if echo "$files" | ynprompt "Are you sure you want to purge these files?"; then
     printf '%s' "$files" | xargs -d "\n" rm
     nm_new
   fi
diff --git a/src/sh/send.sh b/src/sh/send.sh
index 4df907e..4918c45 100644
--- a/src/sh/send.sh
+++ b/src/sh/send.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,16 @@
 # @argument $1: Path to email file
 # @argument $2: if set, don't prompt the user (optional)
 send() {
-  if [ ! "${2:-}" ] && ! ynprompt "Do you want to send this email?" "$($CATEMAIL "$tmpfile")"; then
-    return
+  if [ ! "${2:-}" ]; then
+    # Prompt user
+    undecided=1
+    while [ "$undecided" ]; do
+      case "$($CATEMAIL "$1" | multiprompt "Do you want to send this email?" "$YESSTRING\n$EDITSTRING\n$ABORTSTRING")" in
+        0) undecided= ;;
+        1) $EDITOR "$1" ;;
+        2) return ;;
+      esac
+    done
   fi
   $MSMTP -t --read-envelope-from -X "$SMTPLOGFILE" < "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
   log=$(tail -1 "$SMTPLOGFILE")
@@ -11,7 +19,7 @@ send() {
     return
   fi
   # Handle errors
-  res=$(printf "0 Retry\n1 Edit email\n2 Abort\n" | multiprompt "Could not send the email. What's next?" "$(echo "$log" | $CATLOG)")
+  res=$(echo "$log" | $CATLOG | multiprompt "Could not send the email. What's next?" "Retry\n$EDITSTRING\n$ABORTSTRING")
   case "$res" in
     0) send "$1" ;;
     1) $EDITOR "$1"; send "$1" ;;
diff --git a/src/sh/theme.sh b/src/sh/theme.sh
index db1d992..29641ac 100644
--- a/src/sh/theme.sh
+++ b/src/sh/theme.sh
@@ -12,8 +12,14 @@ if [ ! "${THEME_LOADED:-}" ]; then
   COLTAGS="$(printf '\033[38;5;%sm' "$ANSICOLORTAGS")"
   COLRESET="$(printf '\033[0m')"
 
+  YESSTRING="${YESSTRING:-$(printf '\033[32mYes\033[0m')}"
+  NOSTRING="${NOSTRING:-$(printf '\033[31mNo\033[0m')}"
+  ABORTSTRING="${ABORTSTRING:-$(printf '\033[31mAbort\033[0m')}"
+  EDITSTRING="${EDITSTRING:-$(printf '\033[33mEdit email\033[0m')}"
+
   export ANSICOLORDATE ANSICOLORCNTS ANSICOLORFROM ANSICOLORSUBJ ANSICOLORTAGS
   export COLDATE COLCNTS COLFROM COLSUBJ COLTAGS COLRESET
+  export YESSTRING NOSTRING ABORTSTRING EDITSTRING
 
   export THEME_LOADED=1
 fi
diff --git a/src/sh/userprompt.sh b/src/sh/userprompt.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9690e4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sh/userprompt.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Various functions
+
+# This prompts the user for a series of options.
+# The content for the preview is read from stdin.
+# The possible options are given as newlineline-delimited string.
+# The function prints the line number (zero-based) of the selected option.
+#
+# @argument $1: Question
+# @argument $2: Options
+multiprompt() {
+  pf=$(mktemp)
+  cat > "$pf"
+  echo "$2" | awk '{ print FNR-1, $0 }' | $FZF \
+    --reverse \
+    --no-input \
+    --header="$1" \
+    --preview-window='60%,border-line,wrap-word' \
+    --margin='5%,5%,5%,15%' \
+    --preview="cat \"$pf\"" \
+    --bind="$KEYS_PREVIEW_DOWN:preview-down" \
+    --bind="$KEYS_PREVIEW_UP:preview-up" \
+    --bind="$KEYS_PREVIEW_DOWN_HP:preview-half-page-down" \
+    --bind="$KEYS_PREVIEW_UP_HP:preview-half-page-up" \
+    --bind="$KEYS_PREVIEW_TOGGLE_WRAP:toggle-preview-wrap-word" \
+    --with-nth=2.. \
+    --accept-nth=1 \
+    --header-border='line' \
+    --bind="ctrl-c,esc,ctrl-q:" \
+    --color='border:yellow,header:yellow' || true
+  rm -f "$pf"
+}
+
+# This prompts the user for a "yes" or a "no", and shows the content from stdin
+# in the preview window.
+# @argument $1: Question
+# @return: 0 if the user answered "yes" and 1 otherwise.
+ynprompt() {
+  return "$(cat | multiprompt "$1" "$YESSTRING\n$NOSTRING")"
+}
diff --git a/src/sh/varia.sh b/src/sh/varia.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index d4912ab..0000000
--- a/src/sh/varia.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# Various functions
-
-# This prompts the user for a "yes" or a "no"
-# @argument $1: Question
-# @argument $2: Content to show in preview window
-# @return: 0 if the user answered "yes" and 1 otherwise.
-ynprompt() {
-  return "$(printf '0 \033[32myes\033[0m\n1 \033[31mno\033[0m\n' |
-    $FZF \
-    --sync \
-    --bind='start:pos(2)' \
-    --bind='ctrl-c,ctrl-g,ctrl-q,esc:pos(2)+accept' \
-    --reverse \
-    --no-input \
-    --header="$1" \
-    --preview-window='60%,border-line,wrap-word' \
-    --margin='5%,5%,5%,15%' \
-    --preview="echo \"$2\"" \
-    --with-nth=2.. \
-    --accept-nth=1 \
-    --header-border='line' \
-    --color='border:yellow,header:yellow')"
-}
-
-# This prompts the user for a series of options.
-# The options are read from stdin in the form "integer\toption\n".
-# Prints number
-#
-# @argument $1: Question
-# @argument $2: Content to show in preview window
-multiprompt() {
-  cat |
-    $FZF \
-    --reverse \
-    --no-input \
-    --header="$1" \
-    --preview-window='60%,border-line,wrap-word' \
-    --margin='5%,5%,5%,15%' \
-    --preview="echo \"$2\"" \
-    --with-nth=2.. \
-    --accept-nth=1 \
-    --header-border='line' \
-    --bind="ctrl-c,esc,ctrl-q:" \
-    --color='border:yellow,header:yellow' | head -1 || true
-}