Hi, On 11 November 2010 06:25, Dan Brown <danbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > As part of a project to create a simple and fast music player > interface, I patched dmenu to allow it to return all matching items > instead of just the one at the cursor. dmenu is the browsing > interface; and there is another mode of operation that takes keywords > as hints for a partial match on filenames. The items then get loaded > into a mpc/mpd playlist with a shell script. See > http://github.com/dbro/muss for that code. > > Why is this patch of interest? I call it "filtermode" because it uses > dmenu to generate a list of matches, with interactivity similar to the > trendy "instant" style of searching. For applications working with > sets of items, this method could be faster than the existing > dmenu-multiselect patch, in that it doesn't require the user to > manually select each item they want. The basis for the patch is dmenu > v4.1.1 .
This patch looks kinda useful to me and I'll think about probably supporting this in mainstream dmenu. Cheers, Anselm