[Xmonad] ShellPrompt completion like dmenus

[lobzang at free.fr]

I agree, dmenu is taking too much time loading its list :)


Quoting Andrea Rossato <mailing_list at istitutocolli.org>:

> 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.
>
> Andrea
>