On 20/11/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > pathnames often contain dots - and IRIs even more so. Reserving the dot is > not an option IMHO. > > Would you ever use character sets or classes in dmenu? I most certainly > won't.
Indeed, I think the nature of dmenu is very different from grep, since it is very interactive. grep is a command, whereas dmenu is an interface, and I think they need to be treated differently. A while back I did write a dmenu patch which uses regcomp(3), which I could rustle together for you if you'd like. It won't ever be in mainline, though. cls