Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal

Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by cyborgx7 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:37AM (#17945262)

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

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Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by epicide on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:23PM (#17946845)

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.

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Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by rhaps0dy on Sunday September 09, 2018 @04:47PM (#17947691)

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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Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by epicide on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:25PM (#17953854)

You can configure what Spotlight indexes. I turn off a lot of it so that it doesn't suddenly use a bunch of CPU indexing things that I don't care about.

System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results

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Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by mistaken on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:49AM (#17945305)

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

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Re:Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a men... by pgen on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:24AM (#17945574)

smenu has a fzf inpired search mode

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