dmenu tab completion
asked 2015-05-31 22:14:38 +0000
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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?
A 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.