On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:39:12PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
I share Anselm's opinion that if you want to execute a more complex command, you can just open a terminal. It's important to remember that dmenu is a menu: you select items. The fact that you can append arbitrary arguments is just a very fortunate byproduct of its filter-by-input design.
I don't agree. Even from the outset, when it was wmiimenu, one of the main purposes of dmenu was to input new data, such as tag names. Even now, it's the primary input method for surf, used for constructing complex strings like URLs ex nihilo.
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