On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Donatella Quagli
Dear all,
I would like to have a prompt command to reselect something from my clipboard history. The history is created with a simple cron job that executes xclip -o >> $HOME/.clipboard-history every second.
My question is, how can I create the auto completion list from that file? I tried for many hours and finally gave up. My last try was this command: ((mod3Mask, xK_c), inputPromptWithCompl myXPConfig "clipboard" mkComplFunFromList(runProcessWithInput "cat /home/donatella/.clipboard-history") ?+ (\r -> spawn $ "echo" ++ r ++ "| xclip")) which did not work. Can anybody help me?
Hi Donatella, You're pretty close. The functions you used don't take argument with types IO a, they take just the 'a' produced by running the IO a. Here's a pretty verbose way to do it, which might be easier to understand: clipboardHistoryPrompt = let cmd :: String -> X () cmd r = spawn $ "echo" ++ r ++ "| xclip" complFun :: ComplFunction complFun s = do history <- readFile "/home/donatella/.clipboard-history" mkComplFunFromList (lines history) s in do input <- inputPromptWithCompl myXPConfig "clipboard" complFun case input of Just i -> cmd i _ -> return ()