2013/3/11 Chris Johnson <raugturi_AT_gmail.com>:
> I created a patch to have sorted (first by number of previous runs, then by
> most recent) and unlimited history. It is similar to the patch from Peter
> John Hartman, but modified in the following ways:
Hi Chris,
That's neat. I moved to using a shell script wrapper to dmenu to do
history --- I believe those scripts are on the website --- but it
won't do the neat trick of moving things to the top based on how often
they are used. I'd advocate something like this get moved into dmenu
tip.
It'd also be nice (more generally, even without the history patch, but
especially with it) to have a check to verify that the file still
exists. For instance, I use the history feature on dmenu when I open
pdf files on my system, e.g. [1] where .dmenu_cache_pdfs is generated
via a cron script. But, of course, sometimes I will move or rename
pdf files around, and then the history file will be all dumb. It'd be
a one-line fix.
[1] pdf-opener
#!/bin/bash
HISTFILE=~/.dmenu_cache_pdfs.hist
CACHEFILE=~/.dmenu_cache_pdfs
exe=$(tac $HISTFILE $CACHEFILE | sed 's|^/home/peterjh/||'| dmenu -p
"*" -i -l 10)
echo "$exe"
case "$exe" in
o*) opt="okular"
exe=$(echo "$exe" | sed 's/^o //')
;;
*) opt="mailcap"
;;
esac
if [ ! -f "/home/peterjh/$exe" ] ; then
exit
fi
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exe="/home/peterjh/$exe"
sed -i "\|$exe|d" $HISTFILE
echo "$exe" >> $HISTFILE
case "$opt" in
okular)
okular "$exe" &
;;
mailcap)
run-mailcap "$exe" &
;;
esac
fi
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