From e5a1ce7fca66c1d991f41df421bb7f1a4a3a8c45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Abascal <jacksonabascal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:39:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] gives dmenu the ability to print the index of matched text
 instead of the text itself

---
 dmenu.1 |  3 +++
 dmenu.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dmenu.1 b/dmenu.1
index 323f93c..b3c5f13 100644
--- a/dmenu.1
+++ b/dmenu.1
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ is faster, but will lock up X until stdin reaches end\-of\-file.
 .B \-i
 dmenu matches menu items case insensitively.
 .TP
+.B \-ix
+dmenu prints the index of matched text instead of the text itself.
+.TP
 .BI \-l " lines"
 dmenu lists items vertically, with the given number of lines.
 .TP
diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
index 65f25ce..172a2b4 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct item {
 	char *text;
 	struct item *left, *right;
 	int out;
+	int index;
 };
 
 static char text[BUFSIZ] = "";
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ static struct item *items = NULL;
 static struct item *matches, *matchend;
 static struct item *prev, *curr, *next, *sel;
 static int mon = -1, screen;
+static int print_index = 0;
 
 static Atom clip, utf8;
 static Display *dpy;
@@ -464,7 +466,11 @@ insert:
 		break;
 	case XK_Return:
 	case XK_KP_Enter:
-		puts((sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)) ? sel->text : text);
+		if (print_index)
+			printf("%d\n", (sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)) ? sel->index : -1);
+		else
+			puts((sel && !(ev->state & ShiftMask)) ? sel->text : text);
+
 		if (!(ev->state & ControlMask)) {
 			cleanup();
 			exit(0);
@@ -535,6 +541,7 @@ readstdin(void)
 		if (!(items[i].text = strdup(buf)))
 			die("cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
 		items[i].out = 0;
+		items[i].index = i;
 		drw_font_getexts(drw->fonts, buf, strlen(buf), &tmpmax, NULL);
 		if (tmpmax > inputw) {
 			inputw = tmpmax;
@@ -712,7 +719,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-i")) { /* case-insensitive item matching */
 			fstrncmp = strncasecmp;
 			fstrstr = cistrstr;
-		} else if (i + 1 == argc)
+		} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-ix"))  /* adds ability to return index in list */
+			print_index = 1;
+		else if (i + 1 == argc)
 			usage();
 		/* these options take one argument */
 		else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-l"))   /* number of lines in vertical list */
-- 
2.31.1