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Cool spmenu tricks
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This wiki article is intended to be a list of cool things you can do with
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spmenu that I find very useful, and have changed the way I use my computer.
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1. clipmenu-spmenu
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This is listed in [[User scripts]] too, but clipmenu is extremely useful.
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With clipmenu, everything in the clipboard is saved, and you can easily pull up
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a spmenu list of everything in your clipboard and then use it again.
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If you're the kind of person that copies a lot of text all the time and then later
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wants to use that same text again, this script is extremely useful.
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2. spmenu_run: Web searches
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If you've read [[Functions in spmenu_run]] you're already aware that things like this
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can be done with ease, but here's another use of the `run_post_func()` function.
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Open `~/.config/spmenu/run/config` and add a function like this to the config:
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```
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run_post_func() {
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case "${1:0:1}" in # first char
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"s") query="$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | sed "s/s //; s/ /+/g")" && chromium "http://localhost:8888/search?q=$query"; ;;
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esac
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```
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Note that you should replace `http://localhost:8888` here with the search engine
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you use. Every search engine I've ever used uses this same format, though.
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In this `case` statement, we're checking if the first character is `s`. If it is,
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we get everything except `s ` from the input, and in the latter half of the `sed`
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we also replace all spaces with `+`, which search engines translate into a space.
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You can easily add more search engines, too if you want.
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```
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run_post_func() {
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case "${1:0:1}" in # first char
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"s") query="$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | sed "s/s //; s/ /+/g")" && chromium "http://localhost:8888/search?q=$query" ;;
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"d") query="$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | sed "s/d //; s/ /+/g")" && chromium "https://duckduckgo.com/search?q=$query" ;;
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"r") query="$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | sed "s/r //; s/ /+/g")" && chromium "https://reddit.com/search?q=$query" ;;
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esac
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```
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In this example, I've added duckduckgo searches using the `d` prefix and Reddit
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searches using the `r` prefix. Pretty cool.
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