Hello,
After some discussion in #suckless here is a patch that allows
multiselect in dmenu. Ctrl+enter prints the selected item without
exiting dmenu, and changes its color.
Enjoy,
-emg
diff -r bebcf140b8a9 dmenu.1
--- a/dmenu.1 Wed Oct 26 14:16:12 2011 +0100
+++ b/dmenu.1 Thu Oct 27 12:56:43 2011 -0700
@@ -85,2 +85,5 @@
.TP
+.B Ctrl-Return
+Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.
+.TP
.B Shift\-Return (Ctrl\-Shift\-j)
diff -r bebcf140b8a9 dmenu.c
--- a/dmenu.c Wed Oct 26 14:16:12 2011 +0100
+++ b/dmenu.c Thu Oct 27 12:56:43 2011 -0700
@@ -24,2 +24,3 @@
Item *left, *right;
+ Bool out;
};
@@ -51,2 +52,4 @@
static const char *selfgcolor = "#ffffff";
+static const char *outbgcolor = "#00ffff";
+static const char *outfgcolor = "#000000";
static unsigned int lines = 0;
@@ -54,2 +57,3 @@
static unsigned long selcol[ColLast];
+static unsigned long outcol[ColLast];
static Atom clip, utf8;
@@ -187,3 +191,4 @@
dc->y += dc->h;
- drawtext(dc, item->text, (item == sel) ? selcol : normcol);
+ drawtext(dc, item->text, (item == sel) ? selcol :
+ (item->out) ? outcol : normcol);
}
@@ -199,3 +204,4 @@
dc->w = MIN(textw(dc, item->text), mw - dc->x - textw(dc, ">"));
- drawtext(dc, item->text, (item == sel) ? selcol : normcol);
+ drawtext(dc, item->text, (item == sel) ? selcol :
+ (item->out) ? outcol : normcol);
}
@@ -280,2 +286,5 @@
return;
+ case XK_Return:
+ case XK_KP_Enter:
+ break;
default:
@@ -352,3 +361,6 @@
puts((sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)) ? sel->text : text);
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+ if(!(ev->state & ControlMask))
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+ sel->out = True;
+ break;
case XK_Right:
@@ -468,2 +480,3 @@
eprintf("cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf)+1);
+ items[i].out = False;
if(strlen(items[i].text) > max)
@@ -519,2 +532,4 @@
selcol[ColFG] = getcolor(dc, selfgcolor);
+ outcol[ColBG] = getcolor(dc, outbgcolor);
+ outcol[ColFG] = getcolor(dc, outfgcolor);
