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

[Daniel R. <dra...@gm...>]

Arnout:

Thanks. I knew some of that stuff, but was definitely mystified by
ioncore.clientwin_i, so this is definitely useful.

Since you've foolishly offered to help me, I'll teach you a lesson by
continuing to pester you for more information: I also need to know about
how/where the completion window (WEdln?) does "if the user enters a key in
set S, do something special (e.g. readline stuff), otherwise add it to the
string." I'm guessing the words "bindmap" and "mod_query_wedln_bindmap" are
relevant, but having some trouble finding relevant code sections. Any
pointers you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Alt approach is interesting, but I basically don't know X programming at
all. I'm not sure if this is a problem. I looked at:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s04.html

and it looks like it might be easy enough (just need to figure out how to
send that message; hopefully multiple screen/workspace issues don't
complicate it).

Even so, it'd be nice to be able to use the alt program via the same notion
query interface a la ion-completefile*, so the other question still comes
up. Otherwise I end up messing around with gtk libraries, fielding "Why
doesn't notion handle the rebasing-completion window properly on my
machine?" questions, etc. I'm spending too much of my workday writing you
this email as it is.

*Is that accurate given what query_exec does? I don't entirely understand
that either?

Thanks,
Daniel

PS: I started using the wm back in ion3, and I remember the drama. I notice
that "ion" is still all over the codebase. Are you not worried that Tuomo
will find out where you live? I respect him a lot, but he seems
temperamental.


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Arnout Engelen <no...@bz...> wrote:

> 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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