Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Troels Henriksen
Connor Lane Smith writes: > Hey, > > On 11/05/2010, Martin Ellis wrote: >> We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was difficult. >> >> For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be easier. >> >> Attached is a patch that provides this. > > I wrote one simil

Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 11/05/2010, Martin Ellis wrote: > We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was difficult. > > For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be easier. > > Attached is a patch that provides this. I wrote one similar to this, except each argument after th

Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Ellis
Hey, I was not working on the problem directly; however as far as I know it was a combination of some nasty C and upstream restrictions on how the code should be written. We did get it working using stdin, however being able to supply the options in the format I suggest would have made things muc

Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:12 +0100 Martin Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was > difficult. > > For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be > easier. > > Attached is a patch that provides this. > > The new syntax is > > d

Re: [dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Troels Henriksen
Martin Ellis writes: > Hi, > > We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was difficult. What situation is this? -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen

[dev] dmenu -m "new%patch" -d "%"

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Ellis
Hi, We had a strange situation where putting the menu in stdin was difficult. For our situation supplying the menu on the command line would be easier. Attached is a patch that provides this. The new syntax is dmenu -m "hello\nworld" or use the -d flag to specify the seperator dmenu -m "hell