Re: [STUMP] better windowlist

[David Bjergaard]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the informative reply! It would be great if we could put this on the
wiki somewhere for the benefit of all.  I agree with Stefan's criticisms of how
the window list is managed, but as Scott points out, it may be hard to implement
the fixes.

Cheers,

    Dave

Scott Jaderholm <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 03 2015,Stefan Huchler wrote:
>
>> I use the windowlist function to switch between windows in stumpwm.
>>
>> But it is just not on par with even the normal buffer switch-to-buffer
>> function/command in emacs, so I hope there is a way to make it better.
>
> In case no one implements your feature requests in StumpWM proper, I'll
> give you some ideas of how you could implement them in your own RC file.
>
>> 1. when I use switch-to-buffer in emacs automaticly the last buffer is
>> selected so with C-x b (default bindings) and <RET> I can fast switch
>> between 2 buffers, would love to have that in stumpwm.
>
> StumpWM doesn't, afaik, keep track of the previously selected window (it
> does keep track of the previously selected frame), on a global or
> per-group basis (windowlist is per group). You could add a function to
> focus-window-hook that saves the previous window somewhere, but it would
> have to keep track of it on a per group basis since windowlist would
> need to know the previous window of the current group.
>
> You could then redefine windowlist or select-window-from-menu to use
> the previous window you stored instead of the current window.
>
> I've included a globally-previous command below that that I use to
> toggle between two windows.
>
>> 2. emacs switch-to-buffer hides buffers that does not match the
>> letters given in, makes seeing when you can type enter much easier.
>
> I don't think that StumpWM's menu can do that. You can use dmenu to do
> that though, and I provide code to use dmenu from StumpWM below.
>
>> 3. emacs s-t-b resorts the buffers to what matches best your search
>> string
>
> switch-to-buffer doesn't do that. flx or helm will do that, maybe
> icomplete does that. Ido does not resort, unless flx-ido is loaded.
>
>> 4. I dont get why stumpwm opens buffers(in stump windows) in the
>> position it was opened even it was not visible, makes more sense to
>> open that "buffer" over the "buffer" I just have focused.
>
> There is a command pull-window-select that behaves like that.
>
>> 5. bonus points for a fuzzy (smex) search that is more powerful then a
>> normal search to select a window with the name 'A - address@hidden@#$ - B'
>> with A B search string when 'A - ' and ' - B' alone is not unique.
>
> It's ido doing the fuzzy search, not smex itself, afaik.
>
> The code below will allow you to use dmenu for menus in StumpWM instead
> of the built-in menu UI. Note I don't use it, so I can't really support
> it. There is a bug with it, but I forget what it is :)
>
> If you use dmenu2, then you can enable fuzzy matching, but IIRC it
> doesn't work when case insensitive option is set. You can also use
> "space separated token" matching, so "A B" would match "A - address@hidden@#$
> - B". You can enable vertical mode and non-matching lines will be
> removed as you type.
>
> (defun select-from-menu (screen table &optional prompt
>                                         (initial-selection 0))
>   "Prompt the user to select from a menu using dmenu on SCREEN. TABLE
> can be a list of values or an alist. If it's an alist, the CAR of each
> element is displayed in the menu. What is displayed as menu items must
> be strings. Returns the selected element in TABLE or nil if aborted."
>
>   (let* ((menu-options (mapcar #'menu-element-name table))
>          ;; FIXME can't handle two items with same string representation
>          (cmd (format nil "echo \"~{~A\\n~}\" | dmenu" menu-options))
>          (selection-string (string-trim '(#\Newline)
>                                         (run-shell-command cmd t)))
>          (selection (find selection-string menu-options
>                           :test (lambda (selection-string item)
>                                   (string-equal selection-string
>                                                 (format nil "~A" item))))))
>     (if (listp (car table))
>         (assoc selection table)
>         selection)))
>
> ;; And the globally-previous code
>
> (defvar *globally-previous* '())
> (defvar *globally-current* '())
>
> (defun remember-focus-window-hook (new old)
>   (setf *globally-previous* *globally-current*)
>   (setf *globally-current* new))
>
> (add-hook *focus-window-hook* 'remember-focus-window-hook)
>
> (defcommand globally-previous () ()
>   "Switch to the previous window (possibly from another group) that had focus"
>   (let* 
>       ((window *globally-previous*)
>        (group (window-group window))
>        (frame (window-frame window)))
>     (when (not (= 0 (window-state window)))
>       (gselect group)
>       (focus-frame group frame)
>       (focus-window window))))
>
> Scott
>
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