dmenu_raycast

A dmenu-like extension for Raycast.

Inspired by this orange website commenter.

Usage

1. Install the extension.
2. Download the dmenu_raycast script and put it somewhere in your $PATH
3. Run something like printf 'one\ntwo\nthree' | dmenu_raycast

dmenu_raycast will either print the selected item to stdout, or exit 0 if the user cancelled without selecting an item.

Whitespace is stripped, but this might change in the future once I check if dmenu also does that lol.

usage: raycast_dmenu [-h] [-p PROMPT]

dmenu-like raycast extension

Provide option list as stdin, the stdout will contain the chosen option.
If no option was chosen, the program will exit with the return code set to 1.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PROMPT, --prompt PROMPT
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Installation

From source:

git clone https://github.com/irth/dmenu_raycast
cd dmenu_raycast
npm install
npx ray build -e dist -o dist
open raycast://extensions/raycast/developer/import-extension

In Raycast, navigate to the "dist" that npx ray build -e dist -o dist created and choose it.

Now, link the dmenu_raycast script to somewhere in your $PATH, for example

sudo ln -s $(pwd)/dmenu_raycast /usr/local/bin/

or

ln -s $(pwd)/dmenu_raycast ~/.local/bin

It may also be advisable to rename, symlink, or alias dmenu_raycast to simply dmenu in order to ensure compatibility with existing dmenu scripts.