On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Andreas Wagner <andreasbwag...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > I am writing some shell scripts for an uzbl bookmarker with full text > search of webpages bookmarked. It wgets the html and takes the md5sum > (of the page), the url and the title and puts them, space separated in > a file. The downloaded page's filename is changed to the md5sum. > > I was trying a way to do the full text search of the pages with an > arbitrary tool such as grep but display the corresponding titles+urls > of the pages in the dmenu. > > Is this currently possible with dmenu? > > Thanks, > Andreas I was trying to do something similar and I wrote a patch to make dmenu output the index of the item instead of the text. The patch adds a "-n" option to toggle making it output an index instead of the text, also you must select the exact item (it doesnt output the input text). Patch added as attachment. I hope you find it useful.
dmenu-item-index.patch
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