2009/10/21 Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com>: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > >> 2009/10/21 Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> (1) * removing urlbar/searchbar and using dmenu instead >>> >>> I'm not sure if this is so attractive, since dmenu does not support x >>> paste >>> (without a patch) and one always finds oneself (or at least I do) cutting >>> and pasting into the searchbar. The ultimate solution, it seems to me, >>> is >>> to have dmenu support x paste in vanilla. This strikes me as superior to >>> an >>> "in-surf" solution (which uses GtkWhatever) for a number of reasons. >>> (a) It keeps the code simple (on the surf side that is; dmenu will >>> need >>> to change). >>> (b) Other web-based activities (smart prefixes in particular) >>> could benefit from a dmenu + x paste. For example, I have a >>> surf-googlesearch.sh script which runs dmenu after parsing my user >>> input >>> from dmenu. It would be nice to x paste into the dmenu rather >>> than >>> typing out a given google search (e.g. when one is searching >>> someone's >>> odd name.) >>> (c) In general, I like the xprop interface and allowing >>> applications >>> other >>> than surf to interact with surf (which is what your new _SURF_FIND >>> feature >>> allows--which is great--which is why we need dmenu to get >>> patched!) >> >> There is sselp(1) at http://tools.suckless.org/sselp which reads >> current selection and prints it to stdout, hence enables you to >> integrate it into dmenu's cache or calling surf `sselp` directly. >> There shouldn't be a real need to paste something interactively into >> surf or dmenu really. >> >> Kind regards, >> Anselm >> > > What about cases in which one wishes to both type a few words and then > paste? For example, when I want > to do a smart prefix search (via dmenu) on Bob McCrue (who sits in my > selection buffer) but I also > want to do something like "University of Wherever" + "Bob McCrue" where the > first part is something > I type in by hand and the second part is something I want to just "paste" > in? The same argument > could be launched with respect to the find feature (which now utilizes > dmenu). > > Or maybe you have something else in mind when you talk of "integrating into > dmenu's cache"?
If you use dmenu for querying wikipedia, asking google, or whatever I think all you want is a usual prefix and then type in the rest of your query. I agree that dmenu's text editing is limited and not equally powerful to a usual text edit field. But perhaps this proves to be an advantage when used for a while, let's see what we think after using it for some time. Often we might conclude less is more. Kind regards, Anselm
