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XMonad.Util.XSelection | Portability | unportable | Stability | unstable | Maintainer | Gwern Branwen <gwern0@gmail.com> |
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Description |
A module for accessing and manipulating X Window's mouse selection (the buffer used in copy and pasting).
getSelection and putSelection are adaptations of Hxsel.hs and Hxput.hs from the XMonad-utils, available:
$ darcs get <http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmonad-utils>
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Synopsis |
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Usage
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Add import XMonad.Util.XSelection to the top of Config.hs
Then make use of getSelection or promptSelection as needed; if
one wanted to run Firefox with the selection as an argument (perhaps
the selection string is an URL you just highlighted), then one could add
to the xmonad.hs a line like thus:
, ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_b), promptSelection "firefox")
There are a number of known problems with XSelection:
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Returns a String corresponding to the current mouse selection in X; if there is none, an empty string is returned. Note that this is
really only reliable for ASCII text and currently escapes or otherwise mangles more complex UTF-8 characters.
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A wrapper around getSelection. Makes it convenient to run a program with the current selection as an argument.
This is convenient for handling URLs, in particular. For example, in your Config.hs you could bind a key to
promptSelection "firefox";
this would allow you to highlight a URL string and then immediately open it up in Firefox.
promptSelection passes strings through the system shell, /bin/sh; if you do not wish your selected text
to be interpreted or mangled by the shell, use safePromptSelection. safePromptSelection will bypass the
shell using safeSpawn from XMonad.Util.Run; see its documentation for more
details on the advantages and disadvantages of using safeSpawn.
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A wrapper around promptSelection and its safe variant. They take two parameters, the first is a function that transforms strings, and the second is the application to run. The transformer essentially transforms the selection in X.
One example is to wrap code, such as a command line action copied out of the browser to be run as 'sudo ++ cmd' or 'su - -c " ++ cmd ++ ".
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Set the current X Selection to a specified string.
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Produced by Haddock version 2.4.2 |