XSelection.hs: +2 functions, safePromptSelection and unsafePromptSelection

Analogous to Run.hs patch; these use safeSpawn and unsafeSpawn respectively.
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gwern0
2007-10-19 18:11:37 +00:00
parent c7e40aa771
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@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@
module XMonadContrib.XSelection (
-- * Usage
-- $usage
getSelection, promptSelection, putSelection) where
getSelection,
promptSelection,
safePromptSelection,
putSelection) where
-- getSelection, putSelection's imports:
import Graphics.X11.Xlib (allocaXEvent, createSimpleWindow, defaultScreen, destroyWindow, internAtom, nextEvent, openDisplay, rootWindow, selectionNotify, Display(), Atom(), XEventPtr(), selectionRequest, sendEvent, noEventMask, sync)
@@ -124,9 +127,15 @@ putSelection text = do
{- | A wrapper around getSelection. Makes it convenient to run a program with the current selection as an argument.
This is convenient for handling URLs, in particular. For example, in your Config.hs you could bind a key to
@promptSelection \"firefox\"@;
this would allow you to highlight a URL string and then immediately open it up in Firefox. -}
promptSelection :: String -> X ()
promptSelection app = spawn . ((app ++ " ") ++) =<< io getSelection
this would allow you to highlight a URL string and then immediately open it up in Firefox.
promptSelection passes strings through the shell; if you do not wish your selected text to be interpreted/mangled
by the shell, use safePromptSelection which will bypass the shell using safeSpawn from Run.hs; see Run.hs for more
details on the advantages/disadvantages of this. -}
promptSelection, safePromptSelection, unsafePromptSelection :: String -> X ()
promptSelection = unsafePromptSelection
safePromptSelection app = join $ io $ liftM (safeSpawn app) (getSelection)
unsafePromptSelection app = join $ io $ liftM unsafeSpawn $ fmap (\x -> app ++ " " ++ x) getSelection
{- UTF-8 decoding for internal use in getSelection. This code is copied from Eric Mertens's utf-string library
<http://code.haskell.org/utf8-string/> (version 0.1), which is BSD-3 licensed, as is this module.