Get filename of current file in workflowvariable

[Boek]

Hey all,

 

new to Alfred, but I like it very much so far.

here's the thing. i am building a workflow, which is supposed to paste a snippet in a file, where I typed the shortcode. I use a workflow because I want to add some variables, which should be pasted on several places in the snippet.

One of the things I would like, is to paste the current filename in the snippet. Is that possible? Can anybody tell me how to do that, or point me to a topic where this was explained earlier? Many thanks in advance

 

greets,

Peter

[vitor]

Welcome @Boek,

 

1 hour ago, Boek said:

current filename

 

What do you mean by this? The current selected file in the Finder, a file selected in Alfred, a file open in an application?

[Boek]

I am triggering the workflow by snippetname, while working in a file. So I am in Atom, for example, editing an existing file. I trigger the workflow by typing !snippetname and I would like the have the name of the file I am working in available as a variable 

[vitor]

In that case you’d need to find a way (via CLI) to have Atom return what file name is currently open.

Edited March 30, 2018 by vitor

[deanishe]

What I did with Sublime is write a plugin (for Sublime) instead. It fires when you change tab, and if the current tab has a valid filepath, it writes it to ~/.sublime.current.txt. If there's no valid filepath, it deletes the file.

[GuiB]

You can also use AppleScript to find the title of the document like that:

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process "Atom" to return title of first window
end tell

 

If you want to have a more general script that would work with other applications, you can get the window title of the front application like that:

tell application "System Events"
	tell (first application process whose frontmost is true) to return title of first window
end tell

 

Regarding Atom, note that Atom would return a string that look like "fileName.extension — folderPath" so you can split the string into the fileName and folderPath if needed or get only one part if the other is not needed