[Xmonad] xmonad-utils: small x apps for xmonad

[Spencer Janssen]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 11:09:21 Gwern Branwen wrote:
> Anyway, I don't think I'll send in a contrib module just yet. hxsel should
> probably be factored out into two functions, a main that prints stuff to
> stdout and the actual selection-fetching code; that way it doesn't have to
> be duplicated. Further, I'm having problems integrating it into Config.hs:
> I finally got it to compile like this: , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_g    
> ), spawn $ "google" ++ unsafePerformIO(getSelection))

Yikes! :)

Here's one way to do it:
    do sel <- getSelection; spawn ("google" ++ sel)

Pointfree:
    spawn ("google" ++) =<< getSelection


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen