Re: [xmonad] Ratpoison key emulation

On 2008 Sep 20, at 13:14, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On 2008.09.20 12:31:22 -0400, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"

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scribbled 0.9K characters: On 2008 Sep 20, at 11:37, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On 2008.09.19 15:40:25 -0500, Spencer Janssen

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scribbled 2.0K characters: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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My first question is, is there any way to scrap all the KeyMask plumbing? I looked at the X11 docs, but there doesn't seem to be any null modmask - mod1Mask is Alt, Shift is Shift, and so on.

KeyMask is a bitmask, so 0 is the no modifiers pressed state. I'd also leave the KeyMask argument on sendKeysym and sendKeyscreen -- some users want to send keys with modifiers (eg. the person that started this thread).

Ah. I feel a little guilty bypassing the Mod* types to plug in in a 0, but it works, it seems.

You might export a noModMask = 0.

That would work, certainly. But isn't that really the X11 library's job? Intuitively, defining noModMask in XPaste.hs feels wrong & completely out of place.

Yes, ideally it'd be in XPaste.hs; the likely reason it's not there is that it's a straight port of the C code so it's using a C-style bit mask instead of something more Haskelly like a list or set of an Enum a => a type. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH