Reasoning:
- the patch is old and incompatible and conflicts with so many
other patches
- the functionality is rather limited especially considering that
it is generally possible to convert json data to work with the
TSV patch or the separator patch
- the patch is for dmenu 4.9, which means that since February 2009
nobody has bothered upgrading this patch to 5.0 or 5.1, which
again implies that not many people actually use or rely on this
patch
The json patch may be re-introduced into dmenu-flexipatch in the
future, but in that case it would be a bespoke version that is
designed around some of the other patches and takes more liberties
rather than trying to adhere to what is available at
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/json/
Example using jq to convert json data to TSV format:
$ cat ~/.bookmarks
{
"uggah": "buggah",
"hello": "there",
"bye": "tomorrow"
}
$ cat ~/.bookmarks | jq -r '. | to_entries | .[] | "\(.key)\t\(.value)"'
uggah buggah
hello there
bye tomorrow
