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Designed with a focus on flexibility and ease of use, it brings a simple, efficient interface for quick command execution and option selection.\n\n[Check out the latest release](https://github.com/hamidzr/gmenu-bins/releases) for the most recent version of GoMenu.\n\n## Features\n\n- **Dynamic Menu**: Creates a quick and responsive GUI menu for various command-line or GUI-based tasks.\n- **Fuzzy Search**: Enhanced fuzzy search for better user experience.\n- **Auto-Pick Options**: Automatically picks a single list of options and pre-applies a query when provided.\n- **Instance Locking**: Ensures a single instance with the same title, improving resource management.\n- **Focus Management**: Closes automatically when focus is lost, keeping your workspace clutter-free.\n- **Customization Options**: Includes configurable colors, font sizes, and prompt settings to tailor the interface to your preferences.\n\n\n## CLI\n\n```shell\ngmenu --help\n\ngmenu is a fuzzy menu selector\n\nUsage:\n  gmenu [flags]\n\nFlags:\n      --auto-accept            Auto accept if there's only a single match.\n  -h, --help                   help for gmenu\n  -q, --initial-query string   Initial query to search for\n  -m, --menu-id string         Menu ID\n  -o, --preserve-order         Preserve the order of the input items\n  -p, --prompt string          Prompt of the menu window (default \"Search\")\n  -s, --search-method string   Search method (default \"fuzzy\")\n  -t, --title string           Title of the menu window (default \"gmenu\")\n```\n\n## TODO\n\nHere are some planned improvements and features for `gmenu`:\n\n- [ ] **Window ID and PID Reporting**: Option to report created window's ID and PID for better process tracking.\n- [ ] **Multiple Selection**: Ability to select multiple items.\n- [ ] **Ctrl+C Escape Behavior**: Make Ctrl+C work like Esc for quick exits.\n- [ ] **Focus Border Customization**: Remove focus border color for input to match aesthetics.\n- [ ] **Improved Fuzzy Matching**: Enable character presence check and relative count for better search relevance.\n- [ ] **CLI Support**: Add CLI mode to support similar behavior directly in the terminal.\n- [ ] **dmenu Compatibility Survey**: Explore `dmenu` options to enhance compatibility.\n  - **Prompt Support**: Add an option for prompt text similar to `dmenu`.\n- [ ] **Preserve Input Order**: Maintain original input order on startup and after resets.\n- [x] **Enhanced Fuzzy Search**: Avoid matching single characters alone unless they are near a separator. =\u003e does it need to be configurable?\n- [x] **Auto-Pick Options**: Automatically pick from a single list of options and pre-apply a query if available.\n- [x] **Remember Last Entry**: Automatically select the last entry used, or position it as the first option.\n- [x] **Close on Focus Loss**: The menu automatically closes when it loses focus.\n- [x] **Instance Lock Based on Name**: Ensures instance locking based solely on the menu name.\n- [x] **Title-Based Instance Control**: Only one instance with the same title allowed.\n- [x] **Improved Fuzzy Search**: Simplified fuzzy search to ignore some characters, such as spaces and underscores.\n\n## Original Inspiration\n\n`gmenu` is inspired by:\n\n- [suckless dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/)\n- [dmenu-mac](https://github.com/s7ephen/dmenu-mac)\n- [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fhamidzr%2Fgmenu-bins","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fhamidzr%2Fgmenu-bins","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fhamidzr%2Fgmenu-bins/lists"}