Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> writes: > Hey, > > On 26 November 2010 14:04, Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> wrote: >> I would prefer if it works like this: >> - when you invoke dmenu, it immediately appears, and user can start >> typing input. as soon as dmenu is started, it starts reading stdin, >> however fast or slow it goes until EOF. >> - anytime anything happens (user changes his query or new line is >> read on stdin) the search results are updated in realtime accordingly. >> >> I think the code/algorithms to realize this must be pretty complicated >> for it to work nicely (high performance).. But your patches seem >> trivial, so did I miss something? > > No, to do this would be trivial. It's just that certain suckless > people are rather aggressive to the idea of using pthreads for > anything.
If threads are the problem, you could do this with select() easily enough. I think people object to the complexity, however. (I don't - especially when the alternative is to loose out on a very useful feature that cannot be implemented in a simpler way.) -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
