On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:40:36PM +0200, Matteo Alessio Carrara wrote:
> This patch facilitates writing wrappers to dmenu, because to understand
> what has been selected by comparing strings is slower than using the
> index of an array. Furthermore avoids ambiguity in the case that there
> were two elements with the same name in the input elements.
> diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1
> index 9eab758..8365e8b 100644
> --- a/dmenu.1
> +++ b/dmenu.1
> _AT_@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> dmenu \- dynamic menu
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> .B dmenu
> -.RB [ \-bfiv ]
> +.RB [ \-bfivn ]
> .RB [ \-l
> .IR lines ]
> .RB [ \-m
> _AT_@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file.
> .B \-i
> dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
> .TP
> +.B \-n
> +output the element's position in the list instead of his name.
> +.TP
> .BI \-l " lines"
> dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
> .TP
> diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
> index d605ab4..b9e82de 100644
> --- a/dmenu.c
> +++ b/dmenu.c
> _AT_@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static struct item *items = NULL;
> static struct item *matches, *matchend;
> static struct item *prev, *curr, *next, *sel;
> static int mon = -1, screen;
> +static int numeric_output;
>
> static Atom clip, utf8;
> static Display *dpy;
> _AT_@ -57,6 +58,16 @@ static Clr *scheme[SchemeLast];
> static int (*fstrncmp)(const char *, const char *, size_t) = strncmp;
> static char *(*fstrstr)(const char *, const char *) = strstr;
>
> +
> +static unsigned
> +itemindex(struct item *it)
> +{
> + unsigned i = 0;
> + for(; (it = it->left) != NULL; i++);
> + return i;
> +}
> +
> +
> static void
> appenditem(struct item *item, struct item **list, struct item **last)
> {
> _AT_@ -424,7 +435,10 @@ keypress(XKeyEvent *ev)
> break;
> case XK_Return:
> case XK_KP_Enter:
> - puts((sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)) ? sel->text : text);
> + if ((sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)))
> + if(numeric_output) printf("%u\n", itemindex(sel));
> + else puts(sel->text);
> + else puts(text);
> if (!(ev->state & ControlMask)) {
> cleanup();
> exit(0);
> _AT_@ -636,7 +650,7 @@ setup(void)
> static void
> usage(void)
> {
> - fputs("usage: dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
> + fputs("usage: dmenu [-bfivn] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor]\n"
> " [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid]\n", stderr);
> exit(1);
> }
> _AT_@ -659,7 +673,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-i")) { /* case-insensitive item matching */
> fstrncmp = strncasecmp;
> fstrstr = cistrstr;
> - } else if (i + 1 == argc)
> + } else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-n")) /* output the element's position in
> + the list instead of his name */
> + numeric_output = 1;
> + else if (i + 1 == argc)
> usage();
> /* these options take one argument */
> else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-l")) /* number of lines in vertical list */
Hey,
You can post this on the wiki.
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Kind regards,
Hiltjo
Received on Thu Mar 30 2017 - 17:57:57 CEST