[2010-11-11 12:47] Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:36:23 +0100 > [email protected] wrote: > > > * Anselm R Garbe <[email protected]> [2010-11-11 12:19]: > > > On 11 November 2010 06:25, Dan Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > As part of a project to create a simple and fast music player > > > > interface, I patched dmenu to allow it to return all matching > > > > items instead of just the one at the cursor. dmenu is the browsing > > > > > > This patch looks kinda useful to me and I'll think about probably > > > supporting this in mainstream dmenu.
> > Can be very useful bound to some modkey + enter > > you mean you want to choose between "return current result" vs "return > all current matches" at run-time? What's a use case for that? > I think this should be configured with a commandline argument, because > the script that calls dmenu needs to know in advance what kind of > output it will get anyway and it depends on what task the script will > do. Or am I missing something? Note that the user might not be able to know in which mode dmenu acts at run-time. The mode should be made visible then. (I don't say that this is the right way to go, though.) meillo
