[Xmonad] shellPrompt kills xmonad

Andrea Rossato mailing_list at istitutocolli.org
Fri Oct 26 19:12:00 EDT 2007


On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:56:13PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
> > I think this is a less burdensome requirement than the readline
> > library, after all.
> 
> Why would it be?  Bash absolutely requires readline (and includes a
> copy, but that's not relevent since you still need a readline-capable
> system).

What I meant is that using directly a readline function requires
modifying the xmonad.cabal file (we used to do that). This is more
burdensome for the user.

Moreover, since a modification of the cabal file is required, the
module cannot be inserted in MetaModule and thus automatically
checked.

Andrea



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