On 6/22/09, Kevin Nagel <auye...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > Dmenu shows you only a list of commands specified by PATH. It opens no dmenu reads a (possibly empty) list of items, then one can select an item or type something different, then dmenu outputs the selected/typed item
what you mean is the dmenu_run script which uses dmenu to execute commands > the app then without any parameters and while selecting for an app > (or command) there is no description what it does. I think sth like dmenu_run can execute commands with parameters > code completion + brief description + argument specification is the > value of enso. dmenu already has completion, on unix brief description + argument specification is man(1) the power of dmenu is its simplicity, what you describe is a terminal with a command interpreter, eg you can use xterm+sh+unix tools (presumably more powerful than enso) > Another neat thing is you could open, e.g. open openoffice writer, > type in "2+3/5", highlight, type in enso-terminal "calc this", and before you can reach the mouse to highlight, you could type that in bc(1) (plan9 fans may point at plumbing instead..)
