Re: [wmii] Fwd: Re: wmii post from perl@gmx.org requires approval

On 4/6/06, zimba.tm <zimba.tm_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:38, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > If someone presents a nice idea which works with sh, maybe in
> > conjunction with awk, I'm open to do it. Otherwise blame X that
> > it needs to grab shortcuts and there is no portable way to get
> > keyboard events in any other way.
>

As talked yesterday on irc, about removing the duplicity of having to write
the keybindings in two places (and thus keep them consistent), so as
garbeam suggested, i've wrote a wmiirc that greps itself for extracting the
list of keybindings to be grabbed, and then write them to /def/keys,
and also grouped all the key handling related stuff in a handlekeys function.

Now, more than ever, I think a advice/comments regarding this behaviour,
it's worth, just because it's not the default way of doing things, and because
it can obviously have unwanted side effects, due to grep matching '$MODKEY.*)'
that we don't want:

<snip>
MODKEY=M4 # changed $MODKEY to Mod4 (instead of $MODKEY=Alt)
<snip>
that matches '$MODKEY=Alt)'

<snip>
        klist=`grep '$MODKEY.*)' $HOME/.wmii-3/wmiirc |
        sed -n 's/^[ ]*//g; s/).*$//; s/$MODKEY/'$MODKEY'/; 2,$p'`
<snip>
also as the grep command in wmiirc, used to extract the keys matches itself:
'$MODKEY.*)', it has to be dropped by sed that discards it's first match.

by now i've placed:
handlekeys() {
# greps wmiirc itself, to extract keybidings to be un/grabbed or reacted
# you're adviced to be careful, because putting $MODKEY.*), could trash
# /def/keys and result in a apparently strange key reacting behavious at worst.
...
}
(it's long but necessary, tand now hope that people read their wmiirc :-P)

That's all, now it's your turn
Regards

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