$ echo "a b c" | smenu -x word d 5
# works without any problems

$ echo "a b c" | smenu -X word d 5
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

$ echo "a b c" | smenu -X current 5
# works without any problems

Kernel: 5.19.0-35-generic
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS x86_64
Shell: bash 5.1.16

Can you please consider implementing an equivalent of gum write – prompt for multi-line text?

You can freely move the cursor and scroll within the box.

How would I go about to reproduce the input behaviour of dmenu?
I need to have the following behaviour with smenu as with dmenu, ie.

possible_new_option=$(
  cat ~/file-with-some-options |
  dmenu -p "Choose an option"
)

In case you are not familiar with this in dmenu, if
the file ~/file-with-some-options has no content, I simply
get an empty list to choose from and then the input I provide is the one
that dmenu will write to stdout. In the case that said file
has contents, then I can simply also choose one from the list, but also
give an input that is not in the list.

As far as I understand smenu, this is not possible, since one can not
input a string that is not given in the option, list. I would very
much like to be wrong here, since I'd like this to be possible
in order to have scripts that use smenu in the terminal and dmenu
on desktop contexts.

All I could do with smenu is something like this,

possible_new_option=$(
  cat ~/file-with-some-options |
  smenu -m "Choose an option"
)

but of course I am not able to input a random string and
if the file ~/file-with-some-options is empty then smenu simply returns.

If this is indeed possible, I would suggest putting it in the man file
for some dmenu users, which they will surely find useful.

Hello,

I just tried out this neat utility and like the minimalism aspect of it.

Is there a way to do multiple selections?

Here's a trivial example (in tcsh):

set foo=`echo "A B C" | smenu` && echo $foo

Right now, I can set foo to "A", "B" or "C". Is there a way so that foo can be set to something like "A\0B", "A\0C", "C\0B", or even "A\0B\0C", where \0 is the null character?

The function “fputs” does not belong to the list of async-signal-safe functions.
I guess that a different program design will be needed for your function “sig_handler”.

Would it be possible to add an option, which would start the prefedined search method without pressing additional keys like "/" ? What I am trying to achieve is to be able to run smenu with some server names and directly search for substrings.

thanks.

I'm not sure how to select multiple entries when using -T

When I hit enter (of course) it chooses the entry and exits. Is there another selection button that I can't find in the docs?

I am getting a crash on this, even though I am piping in 80 chars.
I have a file and the usage is:
selection=$(cut -c1-80 $TMPFILE | smenu -W$'\n' -n 22)

If I replace smenu with fzf it runs fine. I am not sure why smenu is giving this error.

Attaching the file for your information. Thanks a lot for the great work.

Expected:

Some of the gutter text from master/usage.c

Actual:

$ smenu --version
Version: 1.1.0

$  smenu -h | grep -E '\-g|\-gutter'
  [-z|-zap|-zap-glyphs #bytes] [-n|-lines|-height [#height]] [-b|-blank] 
  [-f|-forgotten_timeout|-global_timeout #timeout] 
-f|-forgotten_timeout|-global_timeout

Same result from v1.1.0 glibc static release, and binary built using build.sh as of 4068e3a.

I do not consider this serious bug but look: this is weird!

$ smenu -V
Version: 1.0.0

$ echo '[A]' '[B]' '[C]' |smenu -ES '/([^[]]+)/\2/'
Error: Insufficient memory (attempt to calloc 2305843009213693952 bytes)

The issue is caused by the typo \2 (as well as \3, \4, etc.) in the subtitution part.

Even much weirder issue occures if you try \0 (of course a non-sense, but \0 we get a menu but what a menu it is)!

$ smenu -ES '/([^[]]+)/\0/' <<< '[1] [2] [3]'
[0 [0 [0 

😄

(So a small typo and misuse of a -ES parameter caused by my initial misread of the manual page smenu(1) revealed such weird things in the end.)

I suggest to add the call of the macro "AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR" to your configuration script so that auxiliary build tools will be stored in a dedicated directory.

Using Cygwin:

$ smenu -V
Version: 0.9.12-eff1fe6
$ var=$(smenu -V)
$ echo "$var"

$ var=$(smenu -V 2>&1)
$ echo "$var"
Version: 0.9.12-eff1fe6
$ smenu -V | sed -e 's/.* \(.*\)-.*/\1/'
Version: 0.9.12-eff1fe6
$ smenu -V 2>&1 | sed -e 's/.* \(.*\)-.*/\1/'
0.9.12
$

I don't know if it is on purpose or not, so here it goes.

What

Smenu leaks memory due to forgotten free() call.

Cause

Line 6038 the TELL returns from the function without freeing the variable
gutter allocated line 6018 using xstrdup, therefore leaking memory.

      char *    gutter;

      gutter = xstrdup(optarg);

      [...]

        if (n > 1)
          TELL("A multi columns gutter is not allowed -- ");

        offset += mblen;
      }

      free(gutter);
    }

Consequence

None, especially considering it happens in the main. But it bugs me ;)

Solution

Free gutter before calling TELL.

Related

I believe win.gutter_a allocated line 6031 is also leaked at that point.
I'm not certain of it though.

Version

Version 0.9.12 ; commit eff1fe6.

The configure script looks for build-aux/compile which does not exist. The build still completed successfully when removing the reference.

Line 2387: ac_aux_files="config.guess config.sub compile missing install-sh"

Hi,

I have this array:

for index in "${!results[@]}"; do echo "${results[index]}"; done
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/441370188 (2019-06-19T19:56:36Z - 07:20:54) You can only haHAA once per day cuz I'm playing Bloodstained before SotN, okay? (After Mario first)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/441316653 (2019-06-19T18:01:22Z - 01:53:34) You can only haHAA once per day cuz I'm playing Bloodstained before SotN, okay? (After Mario first)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/440945888 (2019-06-18T21:28:41Z - 06:23:14) Bloodstained came out today AAAAAaaaa! (Any kickstarter backers here to rep? :)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/440456749 (2019-06-17T20:14:21Z - 06:41:24) Future Banjo Smash Mains HMU (We're starting Banjo after Mario & Cadence!)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/439512157 (2019-06-15T18:16:36Z - 11:44:47) Bumpin DOPE Phil Spencer interview during Mario Maker (Cadence of Hyrule after)

but if I pass it to smenu it get truncated

$ for index in "${!results[@]}"; do echo "${results[index]}"; done | smenu -n6 -l -d
 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/441370188 (2019-06-19T19:56:36Z - 07:20:54) You can only haHAA once per day cuz→
 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/440945888 (2019-06-18T21:28:41Z - 06:23:14) Bloodstained came out today AAAAAaaaa! (Any kickstarter backers here to rep? :)
 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/440456749 (2019-06-17T20:14:21Z - 06:41:24) Future Banjo Smash Mains HMU→

Seems to be a problem with handling apostrophe but I am not sure how to fix it

Hello, as I understand it if my menu has options such as "a) .. b) .. c) .." to choose one of a,b,c I have to press a then ENTER, would it be possible to press a,b or c and smenu will choose that selection and exit straight away as if ENTER has been pressed, just as q exits straight away?

Would you like to add more error handling for return values from functions like the following?

• fprintf ⇒ usage
• strdup ⇒ parse_sed_like_string

Sadly enough I have to ask this. Is windows support planned? It could possibly be as simple as compiling to a .exe with visual studio's tools, however that is not my expertise. With MinTTY and all most unix builtins are supported already.

Is there a way to use this like a mini tail -F, or interactive less, so it in place shows a menu of the last 5 lines of input until input is no longer received, then it exits?

I've detailed the question here in a stackoverflow post,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52536392/how-to-tail-f-but-keep-it-only-scrolling-output-in-last-5-lines/52537802#52537802

and thought that maybe smenu might do this? Thanks!

Hi,
either I'm doing something wrong or smenu is. I would like to display and select quoted strings as in the following three choices:

printf %s\\n '"a"' "'a'" 'a'
"a"
'a'
a

but smenu displays the same three unquoted letters:

printf %s\\n '"a"' "'a'" 'a' | smenu -l
a
a
a

Platform: Linux 64-bit
smenu version: 0.9.16

Thank you

Can you please consider implementing an equivalent of gum filter?

Now autoconf 1.16 is used and after configure version of aclocal and automake is hadrcoded into Makefile. If I change it to 1.13, make still works fine (Centos -7.8).

I think hardcoded autoconf version is not a good choice...

This is happening with version 0.9.10
OS FreeBSD.

smenu_list1.txt
smenu_list2.txt

Hi,
i've installed smenu from smenu-1.3.0-linux-glibc-x86-static.xz
i can't start smenu now:

# smenu 
'xterm': unknown terminal type.

According to #16 (comment)
xterm shout work.

If there is anything i can help, feel free to reach out!

I'm building my own terminal in java (https://github.com/sirolf2009/javafx-terminal) and when I try to run smenu I get the error "The terminal does not have the required cursor management capabilities". Can you point me to what those capabilities are so that I can add support to my terminal?

Thanks for a great tool!

I tried your "Bash example (CRTL-R replacement)" with 1.0.0.RC2 but all I get after hitting Ctrl-R is "The length of a word has reached the limit of 512 characters." I do have large history files (2MB/~30,000lines and 3.6MB/80,000lines), but hstr can easily handle them.

Hello,

Currently pressing control-c during smenu selection makes smenu exit 0 with no output. Is it possible to make smenu exit 1 in this case? My need is to distinguish between smenu's empty output due to empty input vs non-empty input and control-c pressed. Thank you for your consideration.

Hi,

Would be nice to have pre-compiled binaries for different architecture to let user test/use smenu quickly without the need to compile it.

Regards,

Hi.

First of all, this is a nice tool, congrats.

I had problems on Mac OSX and FreeBSD.

FreeBSD:

[snip]
config.status: executing depfiles commands
make all-am
CC smenu.o
smenu.c: In function 'sig_handler':
smenu.c:3942:10: error: 'SIGWINCH' undeclared (first use in this function)
case SIGWINCH:
^
smenu.c:3942:10: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
smenu.c: In function 'main':
smenu.c:4972:13: error: 'SIGWINCH' undeclared (first use in this function)
sigaction(SIGWINCH, &sa, NULL);
^
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/home/dbaio/FreeBSD/ports/sysutils/smenu/work/smenu-0.9.8
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/dbaio/FreeBSD/ports/sysutils/smenu/work/smenu-0.9.8

Mac OSX:

[snip]
config.status: executing depfiles commands
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make all-am
CC smenu.o
smenu.c:3963:10: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SIGWINCH'
case SIGWINCH:
^
smenu.c:4993:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SIGWINCH'
sigaction(SIGWINCH, &sa, NULL);
^
2 errors generated.
make[1]: *** [smenu.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

After see this, I builded smenu without problems:
https://github.com/martanne/vis/blob/master/configure#L213

FreeBSD:
-D__BSD_VISIBLE

MacOS:
-D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE

but now smenu is not working as on linux.

R=$(seq 600 | smenu -d -s '/190')

This above example on both MacOS and FreeBSD, freezes after one move.

I've tried different compilations on FreeBSD but the problem occurs always.

ldd /usr/local/bin/smenu
/usr/local/bin/smenu:
libncurses.so.8 => /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x800832000)
libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800a86000)

ldd /usr/local/bin/smenu
/usr/local/bin/smenu:
libtinfo.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libtinfo.so.6 (0x800832000)
libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800a6b000)

Do you have any thoughts or advices about this?

ps. I really want to port it on FreeBSD =)

Best regards.

I've tried just the example below:
$ R=$(awk -F: '$3 < 100 {print $1,$3,$4,$NF}' /etc/passwd \ | smenu -n10 -c)

Is there anything I can do to help in debugging?

Regards.

Hello,

I am using the Nim language (https://nim-lang.org) which interfaces with C language seamlessly.

I'd like to use your project as a library where the input is a pointer to array of strings (and all the smenu options) and output is an another pointer to an array of strings.

Would it be possible for you to pack the core of smenu into such function whose API you provide via smenu.h?

In main, you then probably just parse the command line switches and pass the appropriate args to the smenu function.

Thoughts?

PS: I started with wrapping the smenu.h here, but then realized that I cannot do much with it as most of the smenu code is inline in the main.

To use smenu via Nim, I'd then need to literally translate all the C code to Nim manually.

I have inputs which display livestreams, the view count and their title; e.g.

foobar 1234 title of the stream
baz 1337 another title for another stream

When using -c -C1 this more or less does what I want, making only the first column selectable and producing alignment over the view count. The problem is that the rest of the message is also aligned, which I'd like to avoid, e.g.

foobar | 1234 | title   | of    | the | stream
baz    | 1337 | another | title | for | another stream

Instead I would like something that behaves as follows:

foobar | 1234 | title of the stream
baz    | 1337 | another title for another stream

(Using | as a visual indicator of the columns, not much unlike -g '|| ')

I'm not sure if what I'm after can be done with existing features, I tried my best to look through the manual but didn't find anything particularly obvious.

For posterity. You may close this issue.

All tests PASS on Gentoo Linux (Dell Inspiron 2012?)

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  jlpoole@themis /tmp/test
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