feature request: return string for non-items about choose HOT 11 CLOSED

I like the idea!

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@yoavg It looks like you're right about what line to change. Wanna make the change you're suggesting?

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As I said, I never used Obj-C before, and while I managed to locate the needed line, all the syntax looks very foreign to me.
If you could make this change yourself, that will be super :)
Otherwise, I'll install xcode tomorrow or the next day and find the time to give it a shot myself.

thanks again.

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I manually built choose from the latest master and the flag is now working for me.

Could we get a new version with these changes so that they're included in the brew install choose-gui default?

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Good idea.

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I manually built choose from the latest master and the flag is now working for me.

Could we get a new version with these changes so that they're included in the brew install choose-gui default?

Hi, I know it's been a few years, but could you tell me how to manually build choose from master or give any script?

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@VonbatenBach, there's an included makefile where you can run make and it will build choose for you. The primary command to run is xcodebuild clean build if you don't want to run make.

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After make I have the binary file of choose in build/Release/, am I right? Then I probably should symlink it to other bins, such as/usr/local/bin/ directory, and I will be able to use choose in the same way as it was installed by brew?

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@VonbatenBach , it should drop a copy of the newly-built binary into the root of the project directory as choose, but you can also find it at build/Release/choose.

These days, I recommend folks have a bin/ directory within their home directory and place custom binaries there if not managed by a package manager. You can add $HOME/bin to your path, earlier in the list of paths than others for that binary to take precedence.

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Ok, thank you. Works for me.
May I also ask about the feature discussed primarily in this thread? I thought it was implemented, but choose still returns only selected items, when I type any string not matching these items and press enter, my stdout returns ' '.

EDIT: Now I see option '-m'. Sorry for problem.

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Closing this out as the feature has already been implemented. A new binary needs to be released at some point to reflect the addition.

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