MEW(1)

💅 MEW(1) — general commands manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so welcome to the mew page, this is the General Commands Manual entry for it, and honestly? it's giving iconic little Wayland menu and i'm obsessed. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

mew — menu for wayland 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mew [-beiv] [-l lines] [-o output] [-p prompt] [-f font] [-nb color]
[-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color]

mew-run ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so mew is a simple dynamic menu for Wayland, and the way it works is: it reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin. that's it, that's the vibe. then when the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice gets printed to stdout and mew terminates. periodt 💅

and like — entering text will narrow the items down to those matching the tokens in the input. highkey the most satisfying thing ever, ngl.

mew-run is a script that lists programs in the user's $PATH and runs the result with mew -e. slay.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -b — appear at the bottom of the screen. lowkey just vibing down there.
• -e — execute input or selection with /bin/sh, accompanied by a xdg activation token in it's environment, subsequently passing focus to the application ran. very main character energy 🔥
• -i — matches menu items case insensitively. no cap, it does not care about your caps lock situation.
• -l lines — lists item vertically, with the given number of lines.
• -o output — mew is displayed on the output name supplied.
• -p prompt — defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field.
• -f font — defines the font. cute font era 💖
• -nb color — defines the normal background color of the format: #RRGGBB[FF]
• -nf color — defines the normal foreground color of the format: #RRGGBB[FF]
• -sb color — defines the selected background color of the format: #RRGGBB[FF]
• -sf color — defines the selected foreground color of the format: #RRGGBB[FF]
• -v — prints version information to stdout, then exits. little pop quiz then bye 👑

🌈 USAGE 🌈

okay so mew is completely controlled by the keyboard. no mouse nonsense bestie, we type. items are selected using the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end.

• Tab — Copy the selected item to the input field.
• Return — Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and exits, returning success. ate 💅
• Ctrl+Return — Confirm selection. Prints the selected item to stdout and continues.
• Shift+Return — Confirm input. Prints the input text to stdout and exits, returning success.
• Escape — Exit without selecting an item, returning failure. the sad path 😭
• Ctrl+Left — Move cursor to the start of the current word
• Ctrl+Right — Move cursor to the end of the current word
• C-a — Home
• C-b — Left
• C-c — Escape
• C-d — Delete
• C-e — End
• C-f — Right
• C-g — Escape
• C-h — Backspace
• C-i — Tab
• C-j — Return
• C-J — Shift-Return
• C-k — Delete line right
• C-m — Return
• C-M — Shift-Return
• C-n — Down
• C-p — Up
• C-u — Delete line left
• C-w — Delete word left
• C-y — Paste from Wayland clipboard
• C-Y — Paste from Wayland clipboard

heads up bestie: those last two look like the same thing and yeah, that's literally how the page has them — C-y and C-Y, both Paste from Wayland clipboard. not a typo on my end, i'm just the messenger 🫶

and that's the whole page! it's mew-1.0 from the MEW(1) manual, general commands manual section, and this has been your girl signing off — go pick a menu item, press Return, and live your truth 💜✨🎀