Re: [dev] slmenu - dmenu spinoff for the console

From: Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhartman_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 07:41:45 -0400

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:09:50PM +0200, Rafa Garcia Gallego wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I sometimes use sandy in a SSH session, so I wrote some code around
> dmenu to have it work in the console. The resulting program takes
> input from stdin, reopens the tty, prints the UI to stderr, gets your
> input (again from stdin) and prints the result to stdout, so it mostly
> works as a drop-in replacement for dmenu. Stuff I don't use such as
> the multiline menu and runtime selectable colors is not implemented.
>
> Should anyone be interested, the source is at
> https://bitbucket.org/rafaelgg/slmenu/
>
> I thought of either bundling it with sandy or providing it as a patch
> to dmenu, but this seemed cleaner.

This has been on my personal TODO list for quite some time! Thanks,
Peter

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