[Xmonad] what about a prompt?

[Spencer Janssen]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:26:49 Andrea Rossato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what about a prompt? A general one, to be use to run internal xmonad
> command, to run shell commands, or to run ssh, etc...
>
> With completions, possibly.
>
> This what I'm working to. Some previous Ion3 users will find it
> similar to some of their memories.
>
> It is not finished yet, this is why I'm not sending it as a patch, but
> I'm almost there. I did not think it was going to take such a long
> time - 3 days now (well, I'm not only coding, I'm also trying to enjoy
> my vacation. Lake, mountains, etc....-)
>
> But you can have an idea, and hopefully give suggestions too: save the
> attached file in XMonadContrib as Prompt.hs.
>
> Import it from Config.hs and add some key bindings to lunch the
> prompts.
> For instance:
>
>   , ((modMask .|. controlMask, xK_x), xmonadPrompt defaultPromptConfig)
>   , ((modMask .|. controlMask.|. shiftMask, xK_x), shellPrompt 
> defaultPromptConfig)
>
> So far only a shell prompt and an internal commands prompt
> (xmonadPrompt) are provided (and only the first one with - still
> unusable - completions).
>
> Suggestions, patches, good wishes are welcome.
>
> Andrea
>
> PS: the guys at suckless dot something say that dmenu is less then 500
> lines of code. I'm still below 500 too, with all the extra features.
> Some stuff needs to be added, but there is a lot of stuff we could get
> rid of. The code could not be so verbose, but that's one of my
> problems. Not Haskell's.

I'm excited about this, I'd love to have a prompt with completion that is a 
bit more extensive than dmenu's.

My number one feature request: extensible completion support.  This is an 
interesting problem to consider, which design is best?  Infinite, lazily 
unfolded tries?


Eagerly awaiting your patch :),
Spencer Janssen