adds a weird function to XSelection

This enables you to pass a function of (String -> String) to a selection function to modify the string before executing it.  This way, you can input your own escape routines to make it shell command line safe, and/or do other fancier things.

darcs-hash:20081222020730-3ec9f-cca983e9800b5b712239797d7b4199e0a8d3d97a.gz

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs b/XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs
index aa6624e..714a9a9 100644
--- a/XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs
+++ b/XMonad/Util/XSelection.hs
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ module XMonad.Util.XSelection (  -- * Usage
                                  getSelection,
                                  promptSelection,
                                  safePromptSelection,
+                                 modifySelectionAndSafePromptSelection,
+                                 modifySelectionAndUnsafePromptSelection,
                                  putSelection) where
 
 import Control.Concurrent (forkIO)
@@ -172,3 +174,7 @@ promptSelection, safePromptSelection, unsafePromptSelection :: String -> X ()
 promptSelection = unsafePromptSelection
 safePromptSelection app = join $ io $ liftM (safeSpawn app) getSelection
 unsafePromptSelection app = join $ io $ liftM unsafeSpawn $ fmap (\x -> app ++ " " ++ x) getSelection
+
+modifySelectionAndSafePromptSelection, modifySelectionAndUnsafePromptSelection :: (String -> String) -> String -> X ()
+modifySelectionAndSafePromptSelection f app = join $ io $ liftM (safeSpawn app) (fmap f getSelection)
+modifySelectionAndUnsafePromptSelection f app = join $ io $ liftM unsafeSpawn $ fmap (\x -> app ++ " " ++ x) (fmap f getSelection)
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