-- Document key bindings
local awful = require("awful")
local table = table
local ipairs = ipairs
local pairs = pairs
local math = math
local string = string
local type = type
local modkey = "Mod4"
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
local naughty = require("naughty")
local capi = {
root = root,
client = client
}
module("keydoc")
local doc = { }
local currentgroup = "Misc"
local orig = awful.key.new
-- Replacement for awful.key.new
local function new(mod, key, press, release, docstring)
-- Usually, there is no use of release, let's just use it for doc
-- if it's a string.
if press and release and not docstring and type(release) == "string" then
docstring = release
release = nil
end
local k = orig(mod, key, press, release)
-- Remember documentation for this key (we take the first one)
if k and #k > 0 and docstring then
doc[k[1]] = { help = docstring,
group = currentgroup }
end
return k
end
awful.key.new = new -- monkey patch
-- Turn a key to a string
local function key2str(key)
local sym = key.key or key.keysym
local translate = {
["#14"] = "#",
[" "] = "Space",
}
sym = translate[sym] or sym
if not key.modifiers or #key.modifiers == 0 then return sym end
local result = ""
local translate = {
[modkey] = "⊞",
Shift = "⇧",
Control = "Ctrl",
}
for _, mod in pairs(key.modifiers) do
mod = translate[mod] or mod
result = result .. mod .. " + "
end
return result .. sym
end
-- Unicode "aware" length function (well, UTF8 aware)
-- See: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode
local function unilen(str)
local _, count = string.gsub(str, "[^\128-\193]", "")
return count
end
-- Start a new group
function group(name)
currentgroup = name
return {}
end
local function markup(keys)
local result = {}
-- Compute longest key combination
local longest = 0
for _, key in ipairs(keys) do
if doc[key] then
longest = math.max(longest, unilen(key2str(key)))
end
end
local curgroup = nil
for _, key in ipairs(keys) do
if doc[key] then
local help, group = doc[key].help, doc[key].group
local skey = key2str(key)
result[group] = (result[group] or "") ..
' ' ..
string.format("%" .. (longest - unilen(skey)) .. "s ", "") .. skey ..
' ' ..
help .. '\n'
end
end
return result
end
-- Display help in a naughty notification
local nid = nil
function display()
local strings = awful.util.table.join(
markup(capi.root.keys()),
capi.client.focus and markup(capi.client.focus:keys()) or {})
local result = ""
for group, res in pairs(strings) do
if #result > 0 then result = result .. "\n" end
result = result ..
'' ..
group .. "\n" .. res
end
nid = naughty.notify({ text = result,
replaces_id = nid,
hover_timeout = 0.1,
timeout = 30 }).id
end