i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:19:14 +0000dmenu tab completionhttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/6043/dmenu-tab-completion/ Is there any way to get dmenu's tab-completion to behave like bash? I am so used to bash's stemming rules that dmenu trips me up. The manpage says " Tab Copy the selected item to the input field.", but I want it to instead do prefix-matching, especially in that it should fill in the maximum number of characters shared by all matches. Is there some wrapper script or something that can trick it into doing this?Sun, 31 May 2015 22:14:38 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6043/dmenu-tab-completion/Comment by Airblader for <p>Is there any way to get dmenu's tab-completion to behave like bash? I am so used to bash's stemming rules that dmenu trips me up. The manpage says " Tab Copy the selected item to the input field.", but I want it to instead do prefix-matching, especially in that it should fill in the maximum number of characters shared by all matches. Is there some wrapper script or something that can trick it into doing this?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6043/dmenu-tab-completion/?comment=6047#comment-6047A wrapper script won't do since you need to hook into the actual key events. Unless there is some fork of dmenu out there for this, I think this isn't possible. Either way, dmenu isn't an i3 product, so maybe you should also ask this in other places.Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:19:14 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/6043/dmenu-tab-completion/?comment=6047#comment-6047