[dev] [wmii] wimenu custom completion

Hello list!

I would really like to use the 'custom completion' feature documented
in the man page of wimenu-3.9.2, just as in the provided example:

> Let's assume that a script would like to provide a menu with
> completions first for a command name, then for arguments to that
> command.

Unfortunately the example script given there goes far beyond my
skills. I have copied and pasted it in a file ~/wim. Then 'sh wim'
does exactly what is expected (fortunately enough I didn't have any
important file called 'fifo' in my home directory ;)) except that once
I have selected something, for example 'foo 1', and pressed Return, I
would like to recover the string 'foo 1' in order to do something with
it. Instead of this wim quits silently and I haven't found a way to
recover the selected string.

Any hint?

By the way, is it intended to add to dmenu a similar feature (and also
the -S option of wimenu)? I'm asking this because at my office wmii is
not available (there is no wmii package in fedora) thus I'm using i3
with dmenu instead. On the other hand the vertical mode of dmenu is
much more comfortable than the horizontal mode of wimenu on the small
screen of my laptop…

Regards,
LuX.
Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 22:51:59 CEST