Advanced direct access

The -D option allows to tune the behaviour of the -N and -F options.

This page gives sove precisions on how to use it, see the manual for a complete description of it.

To start, here is an example of advanced direct access usage:

smenu -c -N t -F -D o:0 f:no n:1 i:1 w:2 s:10

Options meanings:

-c column mode

-N auto numbering mode of words containing a t

-F use embedded numbers in words if any

-D companion option for -N and -F

Sub-option	Meaning
o:0	the embedded number starts at offset 0
f:no	do not follow the numbering given by the last embedded numbea
n:1	the extracted embedded number in 1 digit wide in the input
i:1	1 multibytes to ignore after the embedded number
w:2	the resulting direct access tag will be 2 characters wide
s:10	force the first automatic number to start at 10

1 digit wide
|1 character to skip to reach the word after the embedded number
||
vv
--
5 test1 <-- the input word
^
|
offset 0 from the start of the input word

Now, here are some uses of the l, r, w and a sub-options of the -D option with the -N option: