X-Git-Url: https://git.danieliu.xyz/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dmenu.1;h=7243a36ee140e9a09254959fd95dabd4ab81856d;hb=0582480801d5815ef39fd624cb4ba108d0d21b35;hp=8295d17a28be76753a3f2e0f43daf493e1600432;hpb=bb3e33def3e5156594ac59b75dc52798accbebcd;p=dmenu.git diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1 index 8295d17..7243a36 100644 --- a/dmenu.1 +++ b/dmenu.1 @@ -23,32 +23,24 @@ dmenu \- dynamic menu .RB [ \-v ] .P .BR dmenu_run " ..." -.P -.B dmenu_path .SH DESCRIPTION .B dmenu -is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for -.BR dwm (1). -It manages huge numbers of user\-defined menu items efficiently. -.P -dmenu reads a list of newline\-separated items from stdin and creates a menu. -When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, their -choice is printed to stdout and dmenu terminates. +is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from +stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed +to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those +matching the tokens in the input. .P .B dmenu_run -is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's PATH and +is a dmenu script used by dwm which lists programs in the user's $PATH and executes the selected item. -.P -.B dmenu_path -is a script used by dmenu_run to find and cache a list of executables. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-b dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen. .TP .B \-f -dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but may lock up -X if stdin is from a terminal. +dmenu grabs the keyboard before reading stdin. This is faster, but will lock up +X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file. .TP .B \-i dmenu matches menu items case insensitively. @@ -100,4 +92,5 @@ Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. .B Ctrl\-y Paste the current X selection into the input field. .SH SEE ALSO -.BR dwm (1) +.IR dwm (1), +.IR lsx (1)