All patches and comments are welcome. Please squash your changes to logical
commits before using git-format-patch and git-send-email to
patches@git.madduck.net.
If you'd read over the Git project's submission guidelines and adhered to them,
I'd be especially grateful.
4 Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
5 * (c) 2013, Luke Bonham
10 local easy_async = require("awful.spawn").easy_async
11 local timer = require("gears.timer")
12 local debug = require("debug")
13 local io = { lines = io.lines,
17 local table = { sort = table.sort }
19 -- Lain helper functions for internal use
23 helpers.lain_dir = debug.getinfo(1, 'S').source:match[[^@(.*/).*$]]
24 helpers.icons_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'icons/'
25 helpers.scripts_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'scripts/'
29 function helpers.wrequire(table, key)
30 local module = rawget(table, key)
31 return module or require(table._NAME .. '.' .. key)
36 -- {{{ File operations
38 -- see if the file exists and is readable
39 function helpers.file_exists(file)
40 local f = io.open(file)
49 -- get all lines from a file, returns an empty
50 -- list/table if the file does not exist
51 function helpers.lines_from(file)
52 if not helpers.file_exists(file) then return {} end
54 for line in io.lines(file) do
55 lines[#lines + 1] = line
60 -- match all lines from a file, returns an empty
61 -- list/table if the file or match does not exist
62 function helpers.lines_match(regexp, file)
64 for index,line in pairs(helpers.lines_from(file)) do
65 if string.match(line, regexp) then
72 -- get first line of a file, return nil if
73 -- the file does not exist
74 function helpers.first_line(file)
75 return helpers.lines_from(file)[1]
78 -- get first non empty line from a file,
79 -- returns nil otherwise
80 function helpers.first_nonempty_line(file)
81 for k,v in pairs(helpers.lines_from(file)) do
82 if #v then return v end
91 helpers.timer_table = {}
93 function helpers.newtimer(name, timeout, fun, nostart, stoppable)
94 if not name or #name == 0 then return end
95 name = (stoppable and name) or timeout
96 if not helpers.timer_table[name] then
97 helpers.timer_table[name] = timer({ timeout = timeout })
98 helpers.timer_table[name]:start()
100 helpers.timer_table[name]:connect_signal("timeout", fun)
102 helpers.timer_table[name]:emit_signal("timeout")
104 return stoppable and helpers.timer_table[name]
109 -- {{{ Pipe operations
111 -- return the full output of an input command (synchronous pipe)
112 -- @param cmd the input command
113 -- @return command output (string)
114 function helpers.read_pipe(cmd)
115 local f = io.popen(cmd)
116 local output = f:read("*all")
121 -- run a command and execute a function on its output (asynchronous pipe)
122 -- @param cmd the input command
123 -- @param callback function to execute on cmd output
125 function helpers.async(cmd, callback)
126 return easy_async(cmd,
127 function (stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code)
136 helpers.map_table = {}
138 function helpers.set_map(element, value)
139 helpers.map_table[element] = value
142 function helpers.get_map(element)
143 return helpers.map_table[element]
150 -- check if an element exist on a table
151 function helpers.element_in_table(element, tbl)
152 for _, i in pairs(tbl) do
160 -- iterate over table of records sorted by keys
161 function helpers.spairs(t)
164 for k in pairs(t) do keys[#keys+1] = k end
168 -- return the iterator function
173 return keys[i], t[keys[i]]