[2011-11-21 10:12] Rob
> On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> > it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key-
> > binding-styled-interfaces so popular?
>
> It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows background, you'll
> be used to Ctrl+Backspace t
+-- Rob ---+
> On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> > it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key-
> > binding-styled-interfaces so popular?
>
> It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows
The first applications I remember using this kind of pattern matching
were winamp and web search engines.
On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key-
> binding-styled-interfaces so popular?
It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows background, you'll
be used to Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word, or Shift+Home, Back
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:59:49 +0100
Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> +--- Dieter Plaetinck ---+
> > I don't understand... Are you saying "I agree the
> > token matching works fine and is the fastest, but I
> > still want you to implement an inferior and more
> > complicated appro
+--- Connor Lane Smith ---+
> On 20/11/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> > pathnames often contain dots - and IRIs even more so.
> > Reserving the dot is not an option IMHO.
> >
> > Would you ever use character sets or classes in dmenu?
> > I most certainly
+--- Dieter Plaetinck ---+
> I don't understand... Are you saying "I agree the
> token matching works fine and is the fastest, but I
> still want you to implement an inferior and more
> complicated approach (regexes)" ?
i don't want you to implement regexp, i'm quite h
On 20/11/2011, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> pathnames often contain dots - and IRIs even more so. Reserving the dot is
> not an option IMHO.
>
> Would you ever use character sets or classes in dmenu? I most certainly
> won't.
Indeed, I think the nature of dmenu is very different from grep, since
i
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:28:14 +0100
Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> i use dmenu only on url and program names, i used it for file names too,
> but my files do not have whitespaces, and i agree that typing 'hg ta'
> is much faster then 'hg.*ta', but i think one should not touch REGEXP(7)
> in a single progra
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:28:14 -, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
i use dmenu only on url and program names, i used it for file names too,
but my files do not have whitespaces, and i agree that typing 'hg ta'
is much faster then 'hg.*ta', but i think one should not touch REGEXP(7)
in a single program that
+ Connor Lane Smith ---+
> I would invite you to try it first. We use unstable sorting just like
> before, which means "ba an" will match "banana" before "anbana", and
> it is very rare that you intend to actually match whitespace. (I've
> never need
On 20 November 2011 14:43, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> if this is true, i use v4.3.1 without this, i would say that this
> is not nice because of the very same reason you used the word accident.
I would invite you to try it first. We use unstable sorting just like
before, which means "ba an" will match
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:43:59 +0100
Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> i think we all expect dmenu to match patterns as grep (?)
nope.
+- Bastien Dejean ---+
> I discovered, by accident, that the following input 'foo bar' is
> interpreted as the following regex: '.*foo.*bar.*', that's very nice but
if this is true, i use v4.3.1 without this, i would say that this
is not nice bec
Hey,
On 20 November 2011 14:29, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> Why aren't all the available keyboard bindings documented in the manual?
A lot of them are just standard line editing controls. I don't see any
worth in explaining for the umpteenth time what C-h and C-w do...
> I don't see any word moveme
Hi,
Why aren't all the available keyboard bindings documented in the manual?
I don't see any word movement bindings.
I discovered, by accident, that the following input 'foo bar' is
interpreted as the following regex: '.*foo.*bar.*', that's very nice but
I'm not sure that it is mentioned in the
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