On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:41:20PM -0500, Nathan Neff wrote:
I changed my config.yaml to look like this:
<snip>
${mod}-c: | # focus client chosen from a menu
client = client_menu('invite client:') and client.tag curr_tag
</snip>
Thank you very much! I'm going to delve further into your wmiirc
stuff using the interactive prompt. I don't quite understand how
config.yaml
gets turned into "real" ruby code, but will check out the tutorials on the
website:
http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/rumai/
Black magic... black magic.
Basically, YAML is the same thing as S-exprs or XML. It
represents a tree of nodes. Ruby mangles it into a tree of hash
maps (or whatever ruby calls them). It processes certain nodes
specially --- basically, it just evals them. Keys, for instance,
go something like this:
CONFIG['control']['key'].each { |k, v|
bind_key k *(eval "sub { |key| #{v} }")
}
I'd personally probably stick with pure ruby, but the
config.yaml mangling is straightforward enough.
--
Kris Maglione
If you don't think carefully, you might think that programming is just
typing statements in a programming language.
--Ward Cunningham
