Re: [dev] Re: Suckless.org Man page links

2012-02-11 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| man pages on the web-site where one downloads the software are nice | for the simple reason that they tell us what the software is capable | of doing before we install it. This is exactly what I've used the online manpages for. For this, it would be convenient if the manpage was directly linke

Re: [dev] [st and terminals] About escape sequences and stuff

2012-02-09 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| Writing a saner library than ncurses that knows only st and try to | convince other terminal emulator writers to do the same: support | exactly the same sequences. Replacing ncurses with a hardcoded library is not a workable approach. Unix systems today are accessed from far more environments

[dev] [dmenu] Proof of concept patch for 'tab completion' + Xinerama pointer-relative positioning

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Siebenmann
I'm going to be bold for a newcomer and share a proof of concept patch to dmenu.c for two features that I find very useful (useful enough that I hacked the code to add them). I have no expectations that the patch will be applied to dmenu, or even that the code I've written is the right way to do t