Re: [dev] dmenu : auto confirm when only one item remains

Dnia 2009-08-12, o godz. 14:45:47
Colin Shea <colin_AT_evaryont.me> napisał(a):

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Julien Steinhauser wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Sorry, I don't write to bring a patch.
> > I wander if someone has already patched dwm
> > to make it auto confirm when, (as said in the subject)
> > only one item remains.
> >
> > I've found something on the mailing list which is almost
> > what I wish but not exactly, it auto confirms on exact match.
> >
> > It could be something like :
> > <pseudocode>
> > if number of Item == 1 or if firstItem == lastItem
> > </pseudocode>
> > fprintf(stdout, "%s", text);
> > fflush(stdout);
> > running = False;
> >
> > As I'm not a developper, I miss the knowledge
> > to write the if condition in real code.
> >
> > This feature would be handy for a few scripts in which I use dmenu.
> > If someone has already done it or have ideas on how to do it,
> > please let me know :) .
> >
>
> Why not check if the number of items you are passing into dmenu is one
> and use that instead of making dmenu do the check? It seems to me
> pointless to call dmenu with only one value in stdin.
>

I think he means that if only one item remains on the bar, then it is
automagically returned by dmenu. Anyway, I don't think this is so good,
especially when you make some typo and launch something random.
Regards
Ted
Received on Wed Aug 12 2009 - 19:54:28 UTC