Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:56:11AM +0200, Bastien Dejean wrote: Hi, I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of annoying. I'd prefer that the matching items appear only when a non empty search string exists. ...so you couldn't choose the item via cursor keys, great. You could add yet another bloat option for this and use that in dmenu_run. -- # Petr Sabata pgpJO1ytBvwLD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Bastien Dejean esch...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of annoying. how about you restrict the number of things coming in on stdin instead of puking all over dmenu about this -- # Kurt H Maier
Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty
how about you restrict the number of things coming in on stdin instead of puking all over dmenu about this Because he wants it to still complete to the things in $PATH (or STDIN, in this case) but doesn't want to see it. I still agree that it's stupid. In regards to OP: So write a patch that creates a flag that hides all stdin until the input string is non-empty. Should be trivial. However, don't expect it to go mainline. This is a tiny corner use-case and I suspect that many dmenu users would find it stupid.
Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty
annoying, hah! you suck.
[dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty
i use a history file with dmenu_run that is displayed before the other stuff so i can quickly navigate through recently used commands. maybe that's a compromise for you since it displays useful / often used items first. and you wouldn't need to patch dmenu itself you can modify dmenu_run.
