On 11/28/07, Brent Yorgey
I just pushed a few new contrib modules and wanted to highlight them here in case anyone might find them useful, or think of something interesting to do with them. Basically, I just discovered the excellent XMonad.Prompt framework and have been playing around with it.
* The first is XMonad.Prompt.AppendFile, which simply provides a prompt for you to type a single line of text which should be appended to a file. I use it for quickly writing down notes/reminders/todos that pop into my head into a special file, when I don't want to interrupt whatever else I'm doing. You could also use it for, say, writing a new xmonad contrib module line-by-line, although I don't recommend it. =)
Wow. Don't you think `shellPrompt' from XMonad.Prompt.Shell is quite suitable? It's flexible, it's general, it's... shell. Run: echo 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featuritis' >>/home/me/NOTES
* The next is (IMO) the most interesting, XMonad.Prompt.Input. It provides a nice, modular way to build actions which require user input, using the existing prompt system to get the user input. I also refactored XMonad.Prompt a bit to make this possible.
* XMonad.Prompt.Email is a simple example of the sort of thing that's possible with XMonad.Prompt.Input; it prompts the user for a recipient, a subject, and a short (one-line) body, and sends an e-mail via the GNU 'mail' utility.
Comments, suggestions, and (especially) patches welcome!
Yes, these look useful. I haven't read them properly, though: I've updated GHC to the latest darcs version and can't even configure xmonad now. :) But your patches might simplify extending XMonad.Prompt.Man: section-wise manpage completions aren't easy while `getCompletions' (from XMonad.Prompt) ignores all words in prompt except the last one. Thank you! -- vvv