From 9c8693dc09ec7517a582077da42eaed045f20eb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ploum <git@ploum.eu>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:42:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] display empty files instead of opening them with xdg-open

---
 CHANGELOG  |  1 +
 ansicat.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index daa8fe9..be46e1b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## 2.3 - Unreleased
 - offpunk/netcache: fix IPv6 as an URL (bug #40)
+- ansicat: display empty files (instead of opening them with xdg-open)
 
 ## 2.2 - February 13th 2023
 - cache folder is now configurable through $OFFPUNK_CACHE_PATH environment variable (by prx)
diff --git a/ansicat.py b/ansicat.py
index af33bb5..5c7477a 100755
--- a/ansicat.py
+++ b/ansicat.py
@@ -727,6 +727,13 @@ class GemtextRenderer(AbstractRenderer):
         links += hidden_links
         return r.get_final(), links
 
+class EmptyRenderer(GemtextRenderer):
+    def get_mime(self):
+        return "text/empty"
+    def prepare(self,body,mode=None):
+        text= "(empty file)"
+        return [[text, "GemtextRenderer"]]
+
 class GopherRenderer(AbstractRenderer):
     def get_mime(self):
         return "text/gopher"
@@ -1312,11 +1319,16 @@ _FORMAT_RENDERERS = {
     "text/gopher": GopherRenderer,
     "image/*": ImageRenderer,
     "application/javascript": HtmlRenderer,
+    "application/json": HtmlRenderer,
+    "text/empty": EmptyRenderer,
 }
 def get_mime(path,url=None):
     #Beware, this one is really a shaddy ad-hoc function
     if not path:
         return None
+    #If the file is empty, simply returns it
+    elif os.path.exists(path) and os.stat(path).st_size == 0:
+        return "text/empty"
     elif url and url.startswith("gopher://"):
         #special case for gopher
         #code copy/pasted from netcache