On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:11:46PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 00:50:04 -0500 (EST)
> Peter Olson <peabo@???> wrote:
>
> > > On March 2, 2015 at 12:07 AM Steve Litt <slitt@???>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > In a previous thread I discussed the usefulness and productivity of
> > > using dmenu in parallel with the hierarchical menu. I'm about 1/4
> > > done, all of it dmenu general and not specific to Devuan, because I
> > > still don't know how Devuan's dmenu package will look.
> >
> > Does dmenu act without me pressing Enter?
>
> Thank you for pointing out an error in my documentation. I was
> confusing dmenu with UMENU. I will quickly fix my documentation.
>
> In fact, dmenu DOES NOT act without your pressing Enter.
>
> My bad.
>
> > I'm wondering what happens
> > when I make a typo that happens to match the name of a program I
> > never heard of.
>
> Unless you press Enter, nothing happens after the typo, except the
> wrong list elements get deleted, and Backspace gets you back to where
> you were before the typo.

I note that the i3 window manager has this feature, binding to SpecialKey d.



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Joel Roth