Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Bastien Dejean
Petr Sabata a écrit : > You could add yet another bloat option for this and use that in dmenu_run. I don't want to see the names of the first executables (in alphabetical order) among all the executables found on my path every time I launch a program through dmenu_run. So, yes, I'm gonna bloat

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Troels Henriksen
Bastien Dejean writes: > Hi, > > I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through > dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of > annoying. > > I'd prefer that the matching items appear only when a non empty search > string exists. This would add code

[dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread dafusser
i use a history file with dmenu_run that is displayed before the other stuff so i can quickly navigate through recently used commands. maybe that's a compromise for you since it displays useful / often used items first. and you wouldn't need to patch dmenu itself you can modify dmenu_run.

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread hiro
annoying, hah! you suck.

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Bryan Bennett
> how about you restrict the number of things coming in on stdin instead > of puking all over dmenu about this Because he wants it to still complete to the things in $PATH (or STDIN, in this case) but doesn't want to see it. I still agree that it's stupid. In regards to OP: So write a patch that

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Bastien Dejean wrote: > I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through > dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of > annoying. how about you restrict the number of things coming in on stdin instead of puking all over

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Petr Sabata
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:56:11AM +0200, Bastien Dejean wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through > dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of > annoying. > > I'd prefer that the matching items appear only when a non empty sea

[dev] [dmenu] Hide matching items if the search string is empty

2011-08-04 Thread Bastien Dejean
Hi, I noticed that when dmenu is used as a program launcher (i.e. through dmenu_run) the initial display of all the items of stdin is kind of annoying. I'd prefer that the matching items appear only when a non empty search string exists. -- Bastien