On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:58:12 +0100
Martin Ellis <ellis...@gmail.com> 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
> 
> dmenu -m "hello\nworld"
> 
> or use the -d flag to specify the seperator
> 
> dmenu -m "hello%world" -d "%"
> 
> The old style still works.
> 
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
> Mex.

maybe you should mention what problem you had where writing to stdin
did not work.  it's likely it can be fixed.

Dieter

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