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Tabexec

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.

Configuration and ToolTypes

Tabexec is configured through the AmigaOS ToolType system.

Paths to scan

Set paths with info ToolType PATHS, like so:

PATHS=SYS:C:,SYS:,SYS:Utilities

Default PATHS TT is set to: SYS:C:,SYS:Tools

Stack size

The stacksize for launched programs can be changed with the PSTACK TT.

Example:

PSTACK=8192

Default stack size is: 16384

Colors

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>

Fonts

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.

Installation

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.

Usage

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.

Bugs

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.

Known bugs

It crashes sometimes on a specific distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 running on V1200.

Reason not yet determined.