mew/mew.1
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.TH MEW 1 mew\-VERSION
.SH NAME
mew \- menu for wayland
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mew
.RB [ \-beivP ]
.RB [ \-l
.IR lines ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR output ]
.RB [ \-p
.IR prompt ]
.RB [ \-f
.IR font ]
.RB [ \-nb
.IR color ]
.RB [ \-nf
.IR color ]
.RB [ \-sb
.IR color ]
.RB [ \-sf
.IR color ]
.P
.BR mew-run " ..."
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mew
is an simple dynamic menu for Wayland that reads a list of newline\-separated items
from stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed
to stdout and mew terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those
matching the tokens in the input.
.P
.B mew-run
is a script that lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result with
.BR mew\ -e .
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
appear at the bottom of the screen.
.TP
.B \-e
execute input or selection with
.BR /bin/sh ,
accompanied by a xdg activation token in it's environment, subsequently
passing focus to the application ran.
.TP
.B \-i
matches menu items case insensitively.
.TP
.B \-P
do not directly display the keyboard input, but instead replace it with asterisks.
All data from stdin will be ignored.
.TP
.BI \-l " lines"
lists item vertically, with the given number of lines.
.TP
.BI \-o " output"
mew is displayed on the output name supplied.
.TP
.BI \-p " prompt"
defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
.TP
.BI \-f " font"
defines the font.
.TP
.BI \-nb " color"
defines the normal background color of the format:
.IR #RRGGBB[FF]
.TP
.BI \-nf " color"
defines the normal foreground color of the format:
.IR #RRGGBB[FF]
.TP
.BI \-sb " color"
defines the selected background color of the format:
.IR #RRGGBB[FF]
.TP
.BI \-sf " color"
defines the selected foreground color of the format:
.IR #RRGGBB[FF]
.TP
.B \-v
prints version information to stdout, then exits.
.SH USAGE
mew is completely controlled by the keyboard. Items are selected using the
arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end.
.TP
.B Tab
Copy the selected item to the input field.
.TP
.B Return
Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning
success.
.TP
.B Ctrl-Return
Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.
.TP
.B Shift\-Return
Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.
.TP
.B Escape
Exit without selecting an item, returning failure.
.TP
.B Ctrl-Left
Move cursor to the start of the current word
.TP
.B Ctrl-Right
Move cursor to the end of the current word
.TP
.B C\-a
Home
.TP
.B C\-b
Left
.TP
.B C\-c
Escape
.TP
.B C\-d
Delete
.TP
.B C\-e
End
.TP
.B C\-f
Right
.TP
.B C\-g
Escape
.TP
.B C\-h
Backspace
.TP
.B C\-i
Tab
.TP
.B C\-j
Return
.TP
.B C\-J
Shift-Return
.TP
.B C\-k
Delete line right
.TP
.B C\-m
Return
.TP
.B C\-M
Shift-Return
.TP
.B C\-n
Down
.TP
.B C\-p
Up
.TP
.B C\-u
Delete line left
.TP
.B C\-w
Delete word left
.TP
.B C\-y
Paste from Wayland clipboard
.TP
.B C\-Y
Paste from Wayland clipboard