Status: Started Owner: vogt.adam Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Component-Contrib New issue 338 by vogt.adam: XMonad.Util.Paste.pasteString http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=338 newfish in #xmonad had trouble pasting urls with pasteString. Note that the difficulties with stringToKeysym are already noted in the module's documentation. What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Add a binding for

, ( "M-S-b", pasteString "http://code.google.com" )

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? It pastes httpcodegooglecom I've pushed a patch that changes the paste to "http;//code.google.com", which is still wrong with the ';' vs ':'. I believe that other : Sat Nov 14 17:37:26 EST 2009 Adam Vogt * Bypass more of stringToKeysym in U.Paste But there doesn't seem to be a simple way to detect whether a symbolic key must be sent using shiftMask. ,("M-d", pasteString "?><://\\{}[]" ) gives: /.,;//\[][] Is there a proper way to recognize when a symbol should be sent with shiftMask? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings