On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:52:40PM -0400, Ryan Mullen wrote: > Second, dmenu's "suggested" integration with surf is a bit dodgy. If, > for example, a user is viewing surf.suckless.org and they wish to > navigate to suckless.org, they would be required to strike > shift+return in order to actually visit suckless.org. If the shift key > is not used, the current page will simply refresh. The reason for the > refresh is because dmenu matches the input text against the selected > text, and if it is a substring of the selected text, it will just > output the selected text when return has been struck, which means the > page simply refreshes because the new URI is the same as the current > one.
> As far as I know, the dmenu problem is a feature for one set of users > and an issue for another set. I wouldn't know how to please everyone > on this. Feedback appreciated. Maybe just make return act like shift-return and remove shift-return? So dmenu will act like shell with tab-completion.
