Launcher for AmigaOS 3.x, with tab and auto completion.
Tabexec is meant to be used as a process launcher.
Tabexec is inspired by Dmenu by suckless.org.
Tabexec is configured through the AmigaOS ToolType system.
Set paths with info ToolType PATHS, like so:
PATHS=SYS:C:,SYS:,SYS:Utilities
Default PATHS TT is set to: SYS:C:,SYS:Tools
The stacksize for launched programs can be changed with the PSTACK TT.
Example:
PSTACK=8192
Default stack size is: 16384
The colors of the tabexec window can be changed with the following TTs.
Change the front and backgrounbd colors of the window:
FPEN=<integer>
BPEN=<integer>
Change the front and background color of the seperator:
FPEN_SEP=<integer>
BPEN_SEP=<integer>
At the moment tabexec looks best when using the same system default font and screen font.
The fonts will probably be configurable in a later release.
Copy tabexec and tabexec.info to somewhere in your path.
Example:
copy tabexec C:
copy tabexec.info C:
Or launch from where you see fit.
The files tabexec and tabexec.info should be kept together.
It is a good companion to dintwm (a tiling wm also found on aminet), but is perfectly usable a standalone launcher.
Bind it to a shortcut key, launch it with the mouse or dedicate a CMD entry to it in dintwm.
Tabexec makes most sense used as a shortcut launched app.
Tabexec gadget grabs input.
In short:
- Launch tabexec
- Start typing command
- Tab suggestions, continously tabbing will move through suggestions
- Ctrl-j and Ctrl-l moves back and forth through suggestions
- Return launches command
- Esc exits
Info files are filtered out of suggestions.
There are probably bugs. Report them on github: https://github.com/RasmusEdgar/tabexec
Tested and is stable on AmigaOS 3.1.4 and 3.2 on both fs-uae and Amiga 1200.
Tested and is stable on AmigaOS 3.9 on fs-uae.
It crashes sometimes on a specific distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 running on V1200.
Reason not yet determined.