First, this behavior now matches that of dmenu. People switching over
from dmenu might be used to this.
I would argue, though, that it is more comfortable in general anyway:
The "primary" selection is often easier to access, you can just select
some text and be done with it, no need to reach for C-c (or even C-S-c
in terminals). Some programs like XTerm can't even put text into the
"clipboard" selection without special configuration. It thus makes sense
to make this selection available with a hotkey that's easier to reach (I
find C-y to be much more comfortable than C-Y). Only in rare
circumstances do I need to access the "clipboard" selection.
In practice, this change is *probably* not a (very) breaking change for
users, because you very often have to select some text first using a
mouse (thus putting it into the "primary" selection) before you can put
it into the "clipboard" selection using something like C-c. This means
that pasting from "primary" almost acts as a "magic" hotkey that does
"the right thing".
Previously, C-y pasted the "primary" selection on X11 and the
"clipboard" selection on Wayland. That's inconsistent and confusing,
especially when you're switching back and forth between the two.
This commit does two things:
1. It makes C-y always paste the "clipboard" selection.
2. It adds a key bind C-Y to paste the "primary" selection.
I suspect that most bemenu users are on Wayland, so this commit tries to
not break things for them. It does, however, change the behavior on X11.
This brings the keybinds more in line with readline/emacs-style
bindings. C-l to go left is preserved for backwards compatibility.
Notably, the curses backend already had C-b to go left, but did not
have C-l; it has not been changed.
Add flag and behavior for a forced single-instance mode.
Add XDG runtime directory possible selection and remove errx
Remove usage of errx and errno in the code, add the ability to select the XDG
runtime directory instead of /tmp for the bemenu lock file.
Add parameters to the password flag, add an option in this flag to
enable indicator mode(display asterisks instead of hiding or
displaying the filter text).
Man page and help flag fix
Add password flag details to the man page, fix the help flag slightly
for better password flag details.
This also adds scdoc as a dependency.
scdoc is almost as easy as markdown and therefore it's much nicer to
write and maintain manpages making use of it instead of plain roff.
This adds an alias 'focused' for selecting the current monitor, which
becomes the default on x11 and wayland. The previous wayland default of
displaying on all outputs moves under '-2' or 'all'.
ref: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu/issues/102#issuecomment-604562234
Signed-off-by: Robert Günzler <r@gnzler.io>
- Much of the existing text was reworded for better understandability.
- The new manpage uses mdoc(7) for better formatting.
Because of this, we can merge bemenu and bemenu-run into a single
file.
