Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-22 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-11-21 10:12] Rob robpill...@gmail.com On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key- binding-styled-interfaces so popular? It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows background, you'll

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-21 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+--- Connor Lane Smith ---+ On 20/11/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: pathnames often contain dots - and IRIs even more so. Reserving the dot is not an option IMHO. Would you ever use character sets or classes in dmenu? I most

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:59:49 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: +--- Dieter Plaetinck ---+ I don't understand... Are you saying I agree the token matching works fine and is the fastest, but I still want you to implement an inferior and more

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-21 Thread Rob
On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key- binding-styled-interfaces so popular? It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows background, you'll be used to Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word, or

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-21 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+-- Rob ---+ On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key- binding-styled-interfaces so popular? It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from

[dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Bastien Dejean
Hi, Why aren't all the available keyboard bindings documented in the manual? I don't see any word movement bindings. I discovered, by accident, that the following input 'foo bar' is interpreted as the following regex: '.*foo.*bar.*', that's very nice but I'm not sure that it is mentioned in the

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 20 November 2011 14:29, Bastien Dejean nihilh...@gmail.com wrote: Why aren't all the available keyboard bindings documented in the manual? A lot of them are just standard line editing controls. I don't see any worth in explaining for the umpteenth time what C-h and C-w do... I don't

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+- Bastien Dejean ---+ I discovered, by accident, that the following input 'foo bar' is interpreted as the following regex: '.*foo.*bar.*', that's very nice but if this is true, i use v4.3.1 without this, i would say that this is not nice

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:43:59 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: i think we all expect dmenu to match patterns as grep (?) nope.

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 20 November 2011 14:43, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: if this is true, i use v4.3.1 without this, i would say that this is not nice because of the very same reason you used the word accident. I would invite you to try it first. We use unstable sorting just like before, which means ba

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+ Connor Lane Smith ---+ I would invite you to try it first. We use unstable sorting just like before, which means ba an will match banana before anbana, and it is very rare that you intend to actually match whitespace. (I've never needed to,

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:28:14 -, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: i use dmenu only on url and program names, i used it for file names too, but my files do not have whitespaces, and i agree that typing 'hg ta' is much faster then 'hg.*ta', but i think one should not touch REGEXP(7) in a

Re: [dev] [dmenu] Keyboard Bindings

2011-11-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:28:14 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: i use dmenu only on url and program names, i used it for file names too, but my files do not have whitespaces, and i agree that typing 'hg ta' is much faster then 'hg.*ta', but i think one should not touch REGEXP(7) in a