2009/10/21 Anselm R Garbe <ans...@garbe.us>: > 2009/10/21 Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Julien Steinhauser wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:17:52AM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>> 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"? >>>> >>>> Peter >>> >>> sselp does it also in case you wish to paste "and" write. >>> Select something, then run echo `sselp` | dmenu, tab, space >>> and what you write after that follows your selection, >>> terminate dmenu and all is printed out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> Fair enough; but the functionality still seems a bit stifling, doesn't it? >> Particular problems I would see with this (in terms of "workflow") are as >> follow. >> >> Let's use the simple example of the surf-find function which now uses dmenu. >> >> (1) You have to know in advance if you want to paste into the input field or >> not (on your proposal). >> But sometimes we don't want what is in our x selection buffer to show up as >> an option in the find. >> For example, if I have a huge chunk of code in my x selection buffer, but I >> want to find someone's name. But sometimes we do want what is in our x >> selection buffer to show up as a option in find. >> Hence, we have to know in advance on your proposal, which strikes me as bad. >> >> (2) You can't easily just type something, then paste, then keep typing >> something (on your proposal). >> In fact, you can't type something and then paste either, as the paste >> selection disappears after >> you start typing. This again seems like a limitation. >> >> These considerations suggest that perhaps a patch to dmenu should be >> re-evaluated for inclusion in >> vanilla? > > Well I'd be fine to support ^p in order to paste selection until "\n" > into dmenu if that helps.
Or more generically having some control-key interface that calls a script and reads a line and puts that as input. Kind regards, Anselm
