Dmenu shows you only a list of commands specified by PATH. It opens the app then without any parameters and while selecting for an app (or command) there is no description what it does. I think sth like code completion + brief description + argument specification is the value of enso.
Another neat thing is you could open, e.g. open openoffice writer, type in "2+3/5", highlight, type in enso-terminal "calc this", and the result replaces the "2+3/5" string in your document. They claim that you can do this with other programs as well. I believe I can program the parser as a unix command, but when it is run from dmenu, then I need to specify arguments. Kev On Mon, June 22, 2009 12:40 am, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:31:21PM +0100, Kevin Nagel wrote: >>is it possible to expand dmenu into sth similar like enso >>(http://www.humanized.com/enso/) > > The idea seems absurd. We already have unix commands to perform > all of the requisite functionality. And, with dmenu, you've no > need to hold the caps lock key as you type (are these people > insane?). I just open a terminal for such things: > > <M-Return> > dict antidisestablishmentarianism<Return> > <M-S-c> > > Easily fast enough, and complete with standard tab completion. > If you want something different, bind a key to open dmenu, > execute a command, and display the output somewhere, but I don't > see the point. > > -- > Kris Maglione > > If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer > than > five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which > followed > the same principles â but youâd be able to shift gears with your > car > stereo. Useful feature that. > --Marcus J. Ranum, DEC > > > -- Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Kevin --- Kevin Nagel PhD Student EMBL Outstation - Hinxton European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge, CB10 1SD United Kingdom
