On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:00:31PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Hi, > in an attempt to get a dmenu that includes all features I want, I've been > trying to combine patches from various sources to various versions of dmenu. > This has proven to be a pain, as patches conflict with each other (or > sometimes apply, but still break functionality) and/or loose compatibility > with newer upstream releases. > Interestingly, all of the features I want actually already have corresponding > patches, it's just integrating everything that's so hard. > Myself, I'm a bad C coder so I hope there are some dmenu hackers out there > that share the same goal and can help out. > > Here's my list of features: > * horizontal mode (i.e. dmenu as we know it) > * vertical mode, with flag for how many lines long the menu can be > * string matching (dmenu as we know it) and token matching (aka xmms-like and > awesomebar-like) > * toggle flag for stable sort: (should work with all matching modes) > * stable: order matched results like they are ordered in the input > * unstable: order by "best match" (match at beginning is better than > in the middle) > * case sensitivity toggle > * custom colors > * cursor and "unix shortcuts" (ctrl-e, ctrl-a, ctrl-w, ..) > * traversing results list (going up and down) with arrow up/down and alt+j > and alt+k > * multi select > * unicode support > * paste support (from either primary selection with shift-insert and > clipboard, maybe with ctrl-V) > > Dieter >
I'm a lazy list reader, but aren't all of those already in dmenu tip? Can't you list the features that *aren't* in "dmenu as we know it"? Peter -- sic dicit magister P Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/peterjh
