Hi,
Andrea Rossato
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:03:05PM +0200, Tobias Hauth wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to have ShellPrompt complete like dmenu does? For example if I type "fire" it should also show mozilla-firefox and not only everything starting with fire... .
Hi,
there is a huge difference between dmenu and ShellPrompt, afaik: ShellPrompt gets the completions from bash (or readline in version 0.3), whereas in demnu you need to provide them when launching dmenu, right?
Now, having ShellPrompt complete "mozilla-firefox" for "fire" requires loading ALL binaries' names present in you path and search them. While feasible I think it would be just too much resource consuming.
BTW you can try it yourself. Attached there's a version of ShellPrompt that does what you want (it doesn't require readline): give it a try and, please, report back you impressions.
I tried it and I love it. It's much faster than dmenu on my computer and I notice no slowdown on my laptop (1.86 Ghz Centrino). If it is to slow for other computer I propose that at least the .xmonad_history could be used with this kind of completion. Thanks a lot for this patch (I have to learn haskell) Tobias