Re: [dev] Adding MRU support to dmenu

From: Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 00:53:03 +0100

Eyal Erez wrote:
> I wanted to add support for MRU type sorting of commands. I've created a
> patch which does this in a separate executable for backwards compatibility.

Heyho,

this should also be possible with some construct like this:

rev <historyfile | awk '!x[$0]++' | dmenu

First reverse the historyfile (assuming you append to it), so most recently used
entry is first, then remove duplicates and pass the list to dmenu.

--Markus
Received on Mon Dec 02 2013 - 00:53:03 CET