I am slowly taking the halfwit route, by building up dmenu scripts.

All the io-* scripts in ~/etc/bin/ use iomenu, and I try to keep them stupid.

io-calendar: One line per event, from ical files, converted with calendar-update

io-edit: Most recently used files and all files in $HOME

io-abduco: prompt to attach/create an abduco(1) session

io-setfont: For setting TTY fonts in linux (BSD has wsconsctl), psf format.

io-search: Prompt for a dir and dump the content of every file, for interactive search, and open the selected line of file in editor. iomenu can handle it (strstr(3) can).

io-mblaze: for the super-light mail client mblaze(1) that is a set of command line tools.

io-music: You can select a directory or pick individual songs. Currently mplayer, but you can change it.