Re: [RP] substring window matching

[Björn Lindström]

Rupert Levene <address@hidden> writes:

> Give it a whirl, I think this one's actually quite useful! It lets you
> select windows based on substrings of their names rather than having
> to match stuff at the start of their names.

Isn't this better done in a script? Then you can for instance choose to
use RegExps, substrings or whatever the language in use supports.

Like I do for instance:

(When I did this I was running on tea alone, so it's optimised for
readability rather than speed.)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage: select.rb MATCH NAME COMMAND
# Select the last accessed window matched by MATCH, or run COMMAND.
#
# .ratpoisonrc example: bind e exec select.rb '^(emacs@|Emacs:)' Emacs emacs

match = Regexp.new(ARGV[0])
name = ARGV[1]
command = ARGV[2]

fail "Too many arguments." if ARGV[3]

current = false # Set to true if the current window matches
matches = 0 # The number of windows that matches
windows = {} # A hash of windows indexed by ordering number

`ratpoison -c 'windows %n %s %l %t'`.split("\n").each { |window|
    number, status, order, title = window.split(' ', 4)

    if title =~ match
        matches += 1
        windows[order.to_i] = number.to_i
        current = true if status == '*'
    end
}

if matches > 1
    if current
        exec("ratpoison -c 'select #{windows[windows.keys.sort.reverse[1]]}'")
    else
        exec("ratpoison -c 'select #{windows[windows.keys.sort.reverse[0]]}'")
    end
elsif matches == 1
    if current
        exec("ratpoison -c 'echo No other #{name} window'")
    else
        exec("ratpoison -c 'select #{windows[windows.keys.sort.reverse[0]]}'")
    end
else
    exec(command)
end