On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM, John J Foerch
I had need in my config for a filename prompt. XMonad-Contrib contains XMonad.Prompt.Directory, so I just copied it and made the appropriate substitutions to make XMonad.Prompt.File. It would be great if this could be added to xmonad-contrib so it will be there for the next person who needs this functionality.
Well, as you say, it's basically just a copy-paste with one small change: 36,38c36,38 < getFileCompl :: String -> IO [String] < getFileCompl s = (filter notboring . lines) `fmap` < runProcessWithInput "/bin/bash" [] ("compgen -A file " ++ s ++ "\n") ---
getDirCompl :: String -> IO [String] getDirCompl s = (filter notboring . lines) `fmap` runProcessWithInput "/bin/bash" [] ("compgen -A directory " ++ s ++ "\n")
As it stands, I would be adamantly against inclusion; such copy-paste is not the Haskell way. Surely there is a better approach? I can't help but suspect that this functionality may already be supplied by another module (perhaps the Shell prompt meets your needs). (On a side-note, I'm a little horrified by the 'notboring' function. Is there really no library function for that? I quickly looked in System.Filepath and System.Directory but turned up nothing named along the lines of 'isHidden'.) -- gwern http://www.gwern.net