Re: [dev] [dmenu] A clickable dmenu is a dream?

I have actually used something like this over four years ago. It was
the second shell script I ever wrote. But last year I stopped using
dmenu altogether after it was being turned around all the time, thus
starting to suck hard :P

On 3/28/10, julien steinhauser <julien.steinhauser_AT_orange.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:14:56PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> On 28 March 2010 19:28, Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl> wrote:
>> > This might be getting off topic, but has the possibility of filename
>> > completion in the argument field been considered or written
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>> The problem with this idea is that it adds rather a lot of complexity
>> to a program intended to simply be a menu. dwm simply uses dmenu_run,
>> a shell script wrapper for the more general dmenu. To add things like
>> filename tab completion would undermine the simplicity and generality
>> of the idea.
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> I agree,
> I don't think the feature is worth the pain, it is easily done
> with a wrapper script like dmenu_run with a one step more
> to select the file one wants to open.
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> #!/bin/sh
> exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu ${1+"$@"}`
> file=`ls -p |grep -v / |dmenu` # or something else
> exec $exe $file
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Received on Sun Mar 28 2010 - 22:55:00 UTC