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