Re: [Notion-devel] feature request/dev help: "rebasing" queries

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

Hello Daniel,

Thanks for your interest!

As for navigating the notion codebase, "grep -r "META..\"A" ." would show
you that this key is generally bound to "mod_query.query_attachclient".
"grep -r query_attachclient ." would reveal this is implemented in
mod_query/mod_query.lua.

Diving in there, you'll see the completor is created based on
mod_query.complete_clientwin, which looks at the names of the elements in
the collection of client windows (as iterated through by
ioncore.clientwin_i)

You could look into implementing support for 'rebased queries' there.

An alternative approach might be to add support for _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW
and write a separate (not necessarily notion-specific) utility to query for
a window and request it to be moved to the current frame.

Kind regards,

Arnout

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Daniel Radetsky <dra...@gm...>
wrote:

> I started using notion again (awesomewm is awesome, but not awesome
> enough), and became interested again in impementing a feature I've wanted
> in notion and other incremental searches for a long time, which I call
> "rebasing queries." An incremental search query is "rebased" when the input
> is cleared, but the set of incremental results is retained. The user may
> now input more chars, searching among remaining results.
>
> Ideally would work something like this: I have shit tons of windows open,
> I want to attach a the chrome window with gmail. I enter `M-a chro` and
> completion window shows only browser windows. I now enter `M-a` again,
> which rebases the attach-query (since one is in progress), and then `gmai`
> and now only the gmail window is selected.
>
> I'd implement it myself, but I don't know the notion codebase or lua very
> well. I might be able to manage it if a more experienced notion developer
> could give me some pointers. For example, I don't understand how the query
> set is populated and modified in the first place (I think it's done in the
> C code, but not even sure about that).
>
> Peace Homies,
> --Daniel
>
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