On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:25:09 -0800 Dan Brown <danbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and thanks everyone. > > As part of a project to create a simple and fast music player > interface, I patched dmenu to allow it to return all matching items > instead of just the one at the cursor. dmenu is the browsing > interface; and there is another mode of operation that takes keywords > as hints for a partial match on filenames. The items then get loaded > into a mpc/mpd playlist with a shell script. See > http://github.com/dbro/muss for that code. > > Why is this patch of interest? I call it "filtermode" because it uses > dmenu to generate a list of matches, with interactivity similar to the > trendy "instant" style of searching. For applications working with > sets of items, this method could be faster than the existing > dmenu-multiselect patch, in that it doesn't require the user to > manually select each item they want. The basis for the patch is dmenu > v4.1.1 . > > Suggestions, comments welcome. > Dan > > ------ > > --- dmenu.c 2010-11-09 11:58:12.000000000 -0800 > +++ dmenu.c 2010-11-09 13:10:54.000000000 -0800 > @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ > static unsigned int numlockmask = 0; > static Bool running = True; > static Bool xmms = False; > +static Bool filtermode = False; > static Display *dpy; > static DC dc; > static Item *allitems = NULL; /* first of all items */ > @@ -620,6 +621,12 @@ > case XK_Return: > if((e->state & ShiftMask) || !sel) > fprintf(stdout, "%s", text); > + else if(filtermode) { > + for(Item *i=sel; i; i=i->right) > + fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", i->text); > + for(Item *i=item; i&&(i!=sel); i=i->right) > + fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", i->text); > + } > else > fprintf(stdout, "%s", sel->text); > fflush(stdout); > @@ -939,10 +946,12 @@ > } > else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-xs")) > xmms = True; > + else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-f")) > + filtermode = True; > else if(!strcmp(argv[i], "-v")) > eprint("dmenu-"VERSION", © 2006-2010 dmenu > engineers, see LICENSE for details\n"); > else > - eprint("usage: dmenu [-i] [-b] [-e <xid>] > [-l <lines>] [-fn <font>] [-fa <xftfont>] [-nb <color>]\n" > + eprint("usage: dmenu [-i] [-b] [-e <xid>] > [-f] [-l <lines>] [-fn <font>] [-fa <xftfont>] [-nb <color>]\n" > " [-nf <color>] [-p > <prompt>] [-sb <color>] [-sf <color>] [-xs] [-v]\n"); > if(!setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") || !XSupportsLocale()) > fprintf(stderr, "warning: no locale support\n"); > --- dmenu.1 2010-11-09 08:11:29.000000000 -0800 > +++ dmenu.1 2010-11-09 13:14:06.000000000 -0800 > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ > .RB [ \-i ] > .RB [ \-b ] > .RB [ \-l " <lines>"] > +.RB [ \-f ] > .RB [ \-fn " <font>"] > .RB [ \-nb " <color>"] > .RB [ \-nf " <color>"] > @@ -32,6 +33,10 @@ > activates vertical list mode. > The given number of lines will be displayed. Window height will get > adjusted. .TP > +.B \-f > +activates filter mode. > +All matching items currently shown in the list will be selected, > starting with the item that is highlighted and wrapping around to the > beginning of the list. > +.TP > .B \-fn <font> > defines the font. > .TP > Cool. it's a bit like interactive grep :) Dieter
