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

Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal(github.com)

182 points by pgen 7 years ago | 7 comments

cyborgx7 7 years 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.

epicide 7 years 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.

rhaps0dy 7 years ago | | |

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

I do agree on the tiling WM bit :(.

mistaken 7 years ago | |

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

pgen 7 years ago | | |

smenu has a fzf inpired search mode

gwn7 7 years 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.