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This might be useful if you don't want to have scripts in your PATH environment variable (same executable names, different behavior) - otherwise you might want to use <A HREF="XMonad-Prompt-Shell.html" >XMonad.Prompt.Shell</A > instead - but you want to have easy access to these executables through the xmonad's prompt. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Synopsis</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AdirExecPrompt" >dirExecPrompt</A > :: <A HREF="XMonad-Prompt.html#t%3AXPConfig" >XPConfig</A > -> (<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A >) -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/System-IO.html#t%3AFilePath" >FilePath</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AdirExecPromptNamed" >dirExecPromptNamed</A > :: <A HREF="XMonad-Prompt.html#t%3AXPConfig" >XPConfig</A > -> (<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A >) -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/System-IO.html#t%3AFilePath" >FilePath</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" ><A NAME="1" ><A NAME="1" >Usage </A ></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><P >1. In your <TT >~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs</TT >: </P ><PRE > import XMonad.Prompt.DirExec </PRE ><P >2. In your keybindings add something like: </P ><PRE > , ("M-C-x", dirExecPrompt defaultXPConfig spawn "/home/joe/.scipts") </PRE ><P >or </P ><PRE > , ("M-C-x", dirExecPromptNamed defaultXPConfig spawn "/home/joe/.scripts" "My Scripts: ") </PRE ><P >or add this after your default bindings: </P ><PRE > ++ [ ("M-x " ++ key, dirExecPrompt defaultXPConfig fn "/home/joe/.scripts") | (key, fn) <- [ ("x", spawn), ("M-x", runInTerm "-hold") ] ] ++ </PRE ><P >The first alternative uses the last element of the directory path for a name of prompt. The second alternative uses the provided string for the name of the prompt. The third alternative defines 2 key bindings, first one spawns the program by shell, second one runs the program in terminal </P ><P >For detailed instruction on editing the key binding see <A HREF="XMonad-Doc-Extending.html#Editing_key_bindings" >XMonad.Doc.Extending</A >. </P ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="topdecl" ><TABLE CLASS="declbar" ><TR ><TD CLASS="declname" ><A NAME="v:dirExecPrompt" ><A NAME="v%3AdirExecPrompt" ></A ></A ><B >dirExecPrompt</B > :: <A HREF="XMonad-Prompt.html#t%3AXPConfig" >XPConfig</A > -> (<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A >) -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/System-IO.html#t%3AFilePath" >FilePath</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ><TD CLASS="declbut" ><A HREF="src/XMonad-Prompt-DirExec.html#dirExecPrompt" >Source</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Function <TT ><A HREF="XMonad-Prompt-DirExec.html#v%3AdirExecPrompt" >dirExecPrompt</A ></TT > starts the prompt with list of all executable files in directory specified by <TT ><A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/System-IO.html#t%3AFilePath" >FilePath</A ></TT >. The name of the prompt is taken from the last element of the path. If you specify root directory - <TT >/</TT > - as the path, name <TT >Root:</TT > will be used as the name of the prompt instead. The <TT ><A HREF="XMonad-Prompt.html#t%3AXPConfig" >XPConfig</A ></TT > parameter can be used to customize visuals of the prompt. The runner parameter specifies the function used to run the program - see usage for more information </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="topdecl" ><TABLE CLASS="declbar" ><TR ><TD CLASS="declname" ><A NAME="v:dirExecPromptNamed" ><A NAME="v%3AdirExecPromptNamed" ></A ></A ><B >dirExecPromptNamed</B > :: <A HREF="XMonad-Prompt.html#t%3AXPConfig" >XPConfig</A > -> (<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A >) -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/System-IO.html#t%3AFilePath" >FilePath</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-0.9.1/XMonad-Core.html#t%3AX" >X</A > <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/ghc-prim-0.2.0.0/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ><TD CLASS="declbut" ><A HREF="src/XMonad-Prompt-DirExec.html#dirExecPromptNamed" >Source</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Function <TT ><A HREF="XMonad-Prompt-DirExec.html#v%3AdirExecPromptNamed" >dirExecPromptNamed</A ></TT > does the same as <TT ><A HREF="XMonad-Prompt-DirExec.html#v%3AdirExecPrompt" >dirExecPrompt</A ></TT > except the name of the prompt is specified by <TT ><A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TT > parameter. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="botbar" >Produced by <A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/" >Haddock</A > version 2.6.1</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></BODY ></HTML >