The highlight feature by default overrides other colour schemes and
may in the process partially or fully obscure that an item has already
been output (or is scheduled for output using the multiselect patch).
In this context the highlighting does not add any valuable information
given that the user has already selected the item. Overall it seems
more user-friendly to skip drawing highlights for outputted items.
This patch is simpler than, and superior to, the TSV patch and as
such takes precedence if both are combined.
Also addressed some compatibility issues and compilation errors.
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
