This is a convenience module in order to have less import noise. It
re-exports the following:
a) Commonly used modules in full (Data.Foldable, Data.Applicative, and
so on); though only those that play nicely with each other, so that
XMonad.Prelude can be imported unqualified without any problems.
This prevents things like `Prelude.(.)` and `Control.Category.(.)`
fighting with each other.
b) Helper functions that don't necessarily fit in any other module;
e.g., the often used abbreviation `fi = fromIntegral`.
This is needed because the cache directory is now a part of XConf, which
is calculated once on startup and hence any recalculation would be
fragile.
Some internal functions that are not exposed (like writeHistory) were
also changed to accept that directory as an argument.
In some places, ((!>), prefixAware, and one place in the documentation),
isPrefixOf was used with wrong argument order. In particular, this made
combining search engines not work as advertised, for example, the predefined
search engine "multi".
Changed the XMonad.Action.Search to use a function instead of String to prepare the search URL.Added a few useful functions used to connect many search engines together and do intelligent prefixed searches (more doc in haddock)The API has not changed with the only exception of search function, which now accepts a function instead of String.
It's inappropriate because if I am searching Wikipedia, say, why on earth do I want completion of files and executables on my PC? A previous search query is much more likely to be what I want.
The new getBrowser function allows us to mv the old selectSearch and promptSearch aside as too-general functions, and replace them with new versions, which employ getBrowser to supply one more argument. This allows us to replace the tedious 'selectSearch google "firefox"; selectSearch yahoo "firefox"...' with shorter 'selectSearch google' and so on. One less argument.
Also, update the docs.
This removes whitespace in source code snippets. Because Haddock renders quoted source code as monospaced unwrappable text, the excess whitespace meant you would have to scroll horizontally, unpleasantly.
