[xmonad] shellPrompt exec with args

[Carsten Mattner]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but shellPrompt uses "spawn" so
>> > should not have issues with extra arguments.  I do see an issue where
>> > completion would break if an executable has a space in its name, but
>> > that
>> > shouldn't affect running it if you have your quoting correct.
>>
>> Unsuccessfully tried the following
>> "xterm -e mc"
>> "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc"
>> 'xterm -e mc'
>> '/usr/bin/xterm -e mc'
>
>
> That wasn't what I was talking about, and you should probably forget I
> mentioned it since you're only likely to see the case I was talking about on
> OS X.  All of the above *will* fail:  there is no executable called
> "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" with spaces in the actual filename, hopefully.
>
> Could you show your actual code?

-- shellPrompt is bound to Mod1-p
((defModMask, xK_p), shellPrompt myXPConfig)

-- and uses
myXPConfig = defaultXPConfig
    { position = Top
    , promptBorderWidth = 0
    , defaultText = ""
    , alwaysHighlight = True
    }