Hi Adam, thanks for answering so quickly! It does exactly what I wanted. I should add there must be a whitespace between echo and the double quote. Unfortunately I encountered some problems. One drawback is that the history is not shown before the first letter is typed. Another problem is that whitespace characters are not treated correctly. If you or anybody else know how to solve this it would be nice. But I think it is not worth to invest alot of time. I probably could try dmenu instead. By the way I found many broken links on xmonad.org/xmonad-docs. Is there an intact mirror?           Regards Donatella

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Donatella Quagli wrote:

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By the way I found many broken links on xmonad.org/xmonad-docs. Is there an intact mirror?

Not currently but it should be back in a few days. (The web site hosting xmonad.org and haskell.org is undergoing maintenance.)

I don't think xmonad.org has been involved with any maintenance. Maybe the broken links are links to packages which have not been included on xmonad.org. For example: The page http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Actions-DynamicWorkspace... has a broken link to http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/base/Data-String.html#t:String. That should be fixed. In the meantime, you can probably find what you're looking for in one of these places: - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib (or elsewhere on hackage) - $HOME/.cabal/share/doc/index.html - /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/index.html -- Adam

Dear all, thanks for your great support! Regards Donatella