Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal (opens in new tab)

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182 pointspgen7y ago7 comments

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This is like dmenu but it stays in the terminal. I've needed something like this in the past before for some scripts. Neat.

epicide7y ago

I used dmenu as my main application launcher for a few years. I switched to Mac a few years ago and still miss dmenu and dwm (or just tiling window managers, in general). Could just be rose-tinted glasses, however.

Anyone who hasn't seen suckless.org (where dmenu comes from) should look through what's on there. It has some really small and often useful tools.

rhaps0dy7y ago

Spotlight is kind of like dmenu but it also searches for files and stuff.

I do agree on the tiling WM bit :(.

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mistaken7y ago

Also check out fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

pgenOP7y ago

smenu has a fzf inpired search mode

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gwn77y ago

I've been happily using vis-menu which is a fork of slmenu which is a terminal version of dmenu: http://martanne.github.io/vis/man/vis-menu.1.html

vis-menu is distributed with vis: https://github.com/martanne/vis

This project seems fine as well; though the examples seemed a bit complicated to me. I guess I'll need to rtfm.

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cyborgx77y ago

This is like dmenu but it stays in the terminal. I've needed something like this in the past before for some scripts. Neat.

epicide7y ago

Anyone who hasn't seen suckless.org (where dmenu comes from) should look through what's on there. It has some really small and often useful tools.

rhaps0dy7y ago

Spotlight is kind of like dmenu but it also searches for files and stuff.

I do agree on the tiling WM bit :(.

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mistaken7y ago

Also check out fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

pgenOP7y ago

smenu has a fzf inpired search mode

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gwn77y ago

I've been happily using vis-menu which is a fork of slmenu which is a terminal version of dmenu: http://martanne.github.io/vis/man/vis-menu.1.html

vis-menu is distributed with vis: https://github.com/martanne/vis

This project seems fine as well; though the examples seemed a bit complicated to me. I guess I'll need to rtfm.

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