[xmonad] [xmonad-contrib] XMonad.Prompt.Pass patch

[ardumont]

Hello,

Daniel Schoepe writes:

> Hi,
>
> I think this is a nice idea,

Great!

> but maybe you should get the list of
> passwords from the directory specified by the environment variable
> $PASSWORD_STORE_DIR like pass does (falling back to ~/.password-store if
> it's empty).
>

Good idea, this way people can specify another storage folder if they want
to.

> Another idea would be to run `pass ls' and try to remove the
> pretty-printing it adds; this would avoid duplicating what pass does for
> finding the password directory, but would require assuming

Yes, another idea which abstracts away again from where it is
stored and avoid code duplication.

> that it will always pretty-print passwords in the same way.

At the moment, `man pass` specify `tree` program as the implementation.

This one needs a little extra work because of the parsing output though.

> Sadly pass
> doesn't seem to provide a way to just list the names of the passwords
> without any additional formatting.

Indeed.

I propose to improve the existing code with the first implementation suggestion as
a first step.

And then, if it is approved and merged, see what users say about it.
What do you think?

Best regards,

>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, 19.06.2014 21:57 +0200, ardumont wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here are the latest updates about this new XMonad.Prompt.Pass:
>> - More explicit prompt labels for each `password` prompt
>> - Improved documentation (more concise + add improved links rendering)
>>
>> Please, let me know if anything is wrong.
>>
>>
>> ardumont writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Here is an amended patch featuring:
>>> - typo fixes in header description (`helloWorld` instead of the right function `passPrompt`,
>>> missing XPConfig instance on the binding example -- thanks OODavo on #irc)
>>> - another prompt `passGeneratePrompt` to generate a password for a given
>>> entry (update already existing entry)
>>> - another prompt `passRemovePrompt` to remove a password for a given entry
>>>
>>> I forgot to explicit that all those prompts auto-complete on existing
>>> entries.
>>>
>>> Thanks for considering adding this.
>>> Any suggestions on improvments is more than welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> ardumont writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> You will find enclosed a patch to propose a new XMonad.Prompt.Pass.
>>>>
>>>> From the header description documentation:
>>>>
>>>> -- Provides a shell prompt to lookup passwords in a password-storage (located on user's home @$HOME\/.password-store@).
>>>> -- The password storage used is <http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store the password-store cli>.
>>>> --
>>>> -- When one validates its input, the corresponding password is loaded
>>>> -- in the clipboard for a limited period of 45 seconds.
>>>> --
>>>> -- Greatly inspired from <http://babushk.in/posts/combining-xmonad-and-pass.html>
>>>>
>>>> I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve on this.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --
>>>> @ardumont
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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