Re: [E-devel] patch to make eesh even more obscure

[Kim W. <ki...@wo...>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> when trying to wipe through my windows via cmdline (because some stupid game 
> stole my mouse or whatever) i get annoyed when trying to type out window 
> ids ... sometimes i incorrectly count the # of 0's or the simple factor of 
> trying to type a hex number at lightning speed gets the better of me ...
> 
> either way, when i screw up, it makes me angry because i have to retype the 
> damned thing ;)
> 
> so i made a patch to enable a cheap search/match ... just type 'p' and then 
> the first few bits of the window id ... p stands for partial ...
> for example:
> <eesh example>
> root@vapier 0 root # eesh
> wl
>  1800045 : root@vapier:~
>  120153c : patch to make eesh even more obscure - KMail
>   40027e : 0
>  1600002 : X-Chat [2.0.6]: SpanKY @ lepton.oftc.net / #gentoo (+stncl 69)
> wop p16 move 0 0
> </eesh example>
> here we did a partial match against the window id 1600002.
> 
> the matching does a string comparison starting with the first few 
> characters ... why you ask ?  because we english speakers read right to left 
> and the first few chars are usually pretty nicely distributed ...
> 
> at any rate, the algorithm just looks until it gets a match ... so if in the 
> previous case i typed 'p1' it would have matched '1800045' instead of 
> something else ...
> yes i know the order changes as you focus other windows or do whatever, but in 
> the space of typing 'eesh' and then 'wop p###' i doubt the order will 
> change ... and if it does, well you should have typed out the window id :P
> 
> i also added a few shortcuts for the move, raise, and lower window operations 
> (m, r, and l respectively of course)

While trying out your patch, I got carried away and took it a bit further:
- Most ops can be abbreviated down to two characters.
   Your m, r, and l are mo, ra, and lo, respectively.
- Window matching by full or partial window ID, or by window title
   substring.
- The window list now prints the 0x prefix in window ID's for
   compliance with usual X notation.

Examples, all moving the X-Chat window to (0,0):
- Match by window ID (first char is a digit)
wop 1600002 mo 0 0
wop 0x1600002 mo 0 0
- Match by partial window ID (prefix '+')
wop +16 mo 0 0
- Match by window title (prefix '=' and the rest)
wop =2 mo 0 0
wop SpanKY mo 0 0

/Kim