Hi all,
I was wondering if there is any existing solution to have dmenu
understanding regular expression?
Regards
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On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:46:07 +0200
Thuban thu...@yeuxdelibad.net wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is any existing solution to have dmenu
understanding regular expression?
Hey Thuban.
Regexes in which context?
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Thuban wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is any existing solution to have dmenu
understanding regular expression?
I don't fully follow, you want to use regular expressions to filter
the input before selection? or?
If so you can filter the input
* FRIGN d...@frign.de le [14-05-2014 13:53:53 +0200]:
On Wed, 14 May 2014 13:46:07 +0200
Thuban thu...@yeuxdelibad.net wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is any existing solution to have dmenu
understanding regular expression?
Hey Thuban.
Regexes in which context?
I was
Thuban writes:
Then, we can output with dmenu `filea fileabc fileabcde` if we write :
`filea*`
( yes, its a very simple example...)
Are you really asking for regular expressions, or just globbing? Your
example seems to suggest you want the latter.
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Thuban wrote:
Then, we can output with dmenu `filea fileabc fileabcde` if we write :
`filea*`
( yes, its a very simple example...)
So you want to output more than one element. This could be quite neat
indeed for certain use cases, and a simple implementation would be to
just write all the
Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
I don't fully follow, you want to use regular expressions to filter
the input before selection? or?
I think he wants to enter a regex (or globbing star) and get all results
matching the regex. As far as I know regexes are mainly used to get *multiple*
matches and not
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Thuban wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is any existing solution to have dmenu
understanding regular expression?
There is a patch that adds fuzzy matching support to dmenu, it's not
exactly the same thing, but may work for you.
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:28:08PM +0200, Markus Teich wrote:
Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
I don't fully follow, you want to use regular expressions to filter
the input before selection? or?
I think he wants to enter a regex (or globbing star) and get all results
matching the regex.
Yeah
Now if you want an interactive grep, I don't think dmenu is the tool for
it. It
is designed to only output one result string and not multiple ones.
Interactive grep, this is it exactly. (Sorry, I have some trouble to
find my words in english...).
I'll look at the fuzzy patch or I'll try
Thuban wrote:
My needs Aren't very important indeed, I just had this idea whan I was
looking for a song in a mpd playlist : I knew the artist and the last
word of the song title, and I wish I could write in dmenu : `Two Steps
From*Torment`
So you actually wish to get only one result. For your
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