p-gen/smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
57/100
- Activity 77
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3629
- days_rel: 464
- days_push: 138
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
2492 stars · 53 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
smenu is a terminal-based selection filter that reads words from stdin or a file and presents them in a scrolling, interactive window for keyboard/mouse selection. It works like sed but for selection, usable both interactively and in shell scripts.
Use cases
- pick one option from a list in a shell script
- interactive fuzzy selection of words in the terminal
- build terminal menus for command-line tools
- select multiple items from piped input
- replace long option lists in shell scripts with a picker
- filter and choose entries from a file interactively
When to choose
- you need an interactive selection step inside shell scripts or pipelines
- you want a lightweight C tool that works on any terminfo-capable terminal
- you need multi-select or flexible layouts for terminal choices
When to avoid
- you need a full GUI menu system
- you want a fuzzy finder with preview panes like fzf's richer integrations
- you need Windows-native support without a Unix-like environment
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli terminal-ui developer-tools developer-tools bsd cli cross-platform tui selection-filter interactive-menu shell-scripting c command-line automation linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/p-gen/smenu · fetched 2026-08-28 · b495ce6cbcad
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| p-gen/smenu | main | 57 |
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