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Old 07-02-2010, 06:15 AM   #1
Biowaste
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Awesome WM 3.4.5-1: Edit Prompt widget help (Lua)


Hi LinuxQuestions,

I'm having problems writing a functional edit prompt. I'm guessing it's just a simple lua syntax problem:

# Purpose: An edit prompt that opens files in a set location using vi.*
*
# Current code:*
*
*-- * awful.key({ modkey }, "e", function ()*
*-- * * * awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Edit: " }, mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,*
*-- * * * * * function (words)*
*-- * * * * * * * sexec("urxvt -e vi /home/lys/docs/", words)*
*-- * * * * * end)*
*-- *end),*
*
# Based off:*
*
* * awful.key({ altkey }, "F3", function ()*
* * * * awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Dictionary: " }, promptbox[mouse.screen].widget,*
* * * * * * function (words)*
* * * * * * * * sexec("crodict "..words.." | ".."xmessage -timeout 10 -file -")*
* * * * * * end)*
* * end),*
*
# # Src: anrxc's config.

Any help would be appreciated!

EDIT:
I don't know why it inserted all those stars everywhere?
Pasted it from:
http://www.pastey.net/138219

Last edited by Biowaste; 07-02-2010 at 06:22 AM. Reason: Magical stars appearing out of nowhere + correction and clarification.
 
Old 07-02-2010, 09:15 AM   #2
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double

Last edited by Biowaste; 01-09-2011 at 07:13 PM. Reason: double
 
Old 07-02-2010, 09:16 AM   #3
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Nevermind. I got help from the IRC, and got it to work. Corrected the "words" setup and found out sexec was set as an alias to
"awful.util.spawn_with_shell". So the finished, working code looks like this:

Code:
    awful.key({ modkey }, "e", function ()
        awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Edit: " }, mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
            function (words)
                awful.util.spawn_with_shell("urxvt -e vi /home/lys/"..words)
            end)
    end),
 
Old 08-20-2013, 04:02 PM   #4
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I saw this looking for some neat awesomerc tricks, I just figured I'd clean up the code so it works for anyone/whatever terminal or editor you prefer. editor_cmd is set if you are editing the default rc.lua.

Code:
    awful.key({ modkey }, "e", function ()
        awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Edit: " }, mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
            function (words)
                awful.util.spawn_with_shell(editor_cmd .. " ~/" .. words)
            end)
    end),
 
  


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