TODO and Feature request

[huijunchen9260]

• [x] Optimize if statement and change those if statement into case statement if possible.
• [x] Support other menu/fuzzy finder system
• [ ] Mac OS or other system support
• [x] Vim plugin that use dmenufm as file picker
• [x] Arch linux support (aur?)
• [x] Image preview...? LOL
• [x] Sudo mode
• [x] Compression (zip) action
• [x] Makefile to install dmenufm (and maybe other dependency?)
• [x] Prevent user from naming special characters (like ~ or /) for directories and files
• [x] Check whether the dependency is installed, if not, send notification
• [x] When leaving the item, not only cd to lastpath, but also the dmenu stopped at last selected item (or the cursor position)
• [x] Separate dmenufm script into multiple scripts
• [x] Multi-selection mode
• [x] Rename action
• [x] Extraction action

Wish list?

[camnw]

@saandre15 Hi, you can use the -t or --termpath option to do this. Upon selecting a file (or ./ for directories) instead of being opened as it usually would, dmenu will quit and output the selected file's path.

[saandre15]

Is there an option for selecting directory only or file only?

[huijunchen9260]

dmenufm -t -d for directory, dmenufm -t -f for file.

See dmenufm -h for more information.

[camnw]

If you still want to be able to access directories (the -f option will hide directories from the list), you could use [ -d "$the_output"] to check whether or not it is a directory, and based on that either quit with an error or bring the user back to dmenu. I think this should be more the job of your script than dmenufm.

Quick example

chooseFile () {
    chosen_file=$(dmenufm $1) # pass first arg to dmenufm.
    [ -d "$chosen_file" ] && chooseFile "$chosen_file" # call this function again with chosen dir as path.
} 

You could implement this in a lot of ways to fit your needs, that is just one idea.