aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/edit-menu
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSebastiano Tronto <sebastiano.tronto@gmail.com>2022-05-10 10:58:18 +0200
committerSebastiano Tronto <sebastiano.tronto@gmail.com>2022-05-10 10:58:18 +0200
commit133dd8180878a68845695d48af50d7f20d1bc8db (patch)
tree86adc102b29bd253ac8223b5798679e2a4c1487f /edit-menu
parent2a161ffe5d3999a23ace6b84a60ce7a25c70102b (diff)
downloadscripts-133dd8180878a68845695d48af50d7f20d1bc8db.tar.gz
scripts-133dd8180878a68845695d48af50d7f20d1bc8db.zip
Moved edit-menu to "experiments"
Diffstat (limited to 'edit-menu')
-rwxr-xr-xedit-menu25
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/edit-menu b/edit-menu
deleted file mode 100755
index ed180a2..0000000
--- a/edit-menu
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
1#!/bin/sh
2
3# A "filter", based on your favorite editor.
4# It reads lines from stdin, opens a file containing these lines
5# with your favorite editor, and then prints the content of the file
6# $EDITMENU to stdout. I have configured my editor to write the
7# current line to $EDITMENU when pressing ;; (semicolon twice) like this
8# map ;; !!tee -a $EDITMENU^M " For nvi
9
10# It can be used to replace dmenu or similar menu applications in
11# constrained environment. It works even without any (n)curses library,
12# assuming you use a suitable editor (like ed).
13
14editor=${EDITOR:-vi}
15
16export EDITMENU=$(mktemp)
17in=$(mktemp)
18
19cat > "$in"
20
21# This is a dirty trick to "help" the editor (vi) understand that it can
22# take over the tty to get its input.
23$editor "$in" < /dev/tty
24
25cat $EDITMENU

Generated with cgit - Back to sebastiano.tronto.net