On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:12:59PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote: > [2010-11-11 12:47] Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:36:23 +0100 > > sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > > > > > * Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> [2010-11-11 12:19]: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > This patch looks kinda useful to me and I'll think about probably > > > > supporting this in mainstream dmenu. > > > > Can be very useful bound to some modkey + enter > > > > you mean you want to choose between "return current result" vs "return > > all current matches" at run-time? What's a use case for that? > > I think this should be configured with a commandline argument, because > > the script that calls dmenu needs to know in advance what kind of > > output it will get anyway and it depends on what task the script will > > do. Or am I missing something? > > Note that the user might not be able to know in which mode dmenu acts > at run-time. The mode should be made visible then. (I don't say that > this is the right way to go, though.) >
It might also be useful to allow the user to change the mode while dmenu is running. -- Petr 'contyk' Sabata, Red Hat, Brno () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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