dmenu history caching, shows most frequently selected first

Works with dmenu, fzf, rofi -dmenu etc.

Installation

Compile using ghc -O2 dmenuhist.hs (No special dependencies other than haskell needed), then put dmenuhist executable in path

Example usages

Add history to dmenu_run

#!/bin/sh
dmenu_path | dmenuhist ~/.cache/dmenu_run_hist dmenu | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} &

Show all Git projects using locate, select using fzf, cache history to ~/.cache/gitprojects, cd to directory and open its file listing in Vim

#!/bin/bash
project=$(locate -r '\.git$'| sed 's/....$//' | dmenuhist ~/.cache/gitprojects fzf)
if test -z "$project"
then
    echo "Nothing selected"
else
    cd $project
    vim .
fi

Open some file in ~/.config with Vim, save history to ~/.cache/configfilecache and open in Vim.

find ~/.config -type f | dmenuhist ~/.cache/configfilecachex rofi -dmenu | xargs -o vim

Caveats

• Does not work with multi select, will only save and output the first entry.