Portability	unportable
Stability	unstable
Maintainer	Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe@gmail.com>

XMonad.Actions.Eval

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Description

Evaluate haskell expressions at runtime in the running xmonad instance.

Synopsis

Usage

This module provides functions to evaluate haskell expressions at runtime To use it, bind a key to evalExpression, for example in combination with a prompt:

 import XMonad
 import XMonad.Actions.Eval
 import XMonad.Prompt.Input
 ..
   , ((modMask,xK_t), inputPrompt defaultXPConfig "Eval" >>= flip whenJust (evalExpression defaultEvalConfig))

For detailed instructions on editing your key bindings, see XMonad.Doc.Extending.

Documentation

evalExpression :: EvalConfig -> String -> X ()Source

Evaluates a given expression, but discard the returned value. Provided for more convenient use in keybindings

evalExpressionWithReturn :: EvalConfig -> String -> X String Source

Evaluates a given expression whose result type has to be an instance of Show

data EvalConfig Source

Configuration structure

Constructors

EvalConfig

Fields

handleError :: InterpreterError -> X String: Function to handle errors
imports :: [(ModuleName, Maybe String)]: Modules to import for interpreting the expression. The pair consists of the module name and an optional qualification of the imported module.
modules :: [String]: Other source files that should be loaded The definitions of these modules will be visible regardless of whether they are exported.

defaultEvalConfig :: EvalConfig Source

Defaults for evaluating expressions.