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+MIT License
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+# pikl-menu
+
+Pipe stuff in, pick stuff out.
+
+pikl is an interactive menu that runs in your terminal or as a desktop
+overlay. You give it a list of things. It lets you filter, navigate, and
+select from that list. Then it tells you what was picked.
+
+That's it. That's the whole idea. The power comes from what you connect
+it to.
+
+## What's a menu tool for?
+
+You've got a folder of 400 wallpapers and you want to pick one. You've
+got 30 running processes and you want to kill a few. You've got a list
+of SSH hosts, git branches, emoji, colour schemes, docker containers,
+tmux sessions, browser bookmarks. Anything that's fundamentally
+"here's a list of stuff, let me search through it and pick something."
+
+Normally you'd write a little script for each of these. Or scroll through
+terminal output. Or memorize names. A menu tool replaces all of that
+with one interaction pattern: a searchable, keyboard-driven list that
+feeds your choice back into whatever script or keybinding kicked it off.
+
+Some things pikl can do:
+
+```sh
+# pick a file
+ls ~/wallpapers/*.jpg | pikl
+
+# pick a process to kill
+ps aux | pikl | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
+
+# browse git branches and check one out
+git branch --list | pikl | xargs git checkout
+
+# pick from structured data - understands JSON
+cat bookmarks.json | pikl --format '{title} ({url})'
+```
+
+Every one of those is just a pipe. Your shell already knows how to glue
+these together. pikl is the interactive step in the middle.
+
+## Coming from rofi or wofi?
+
+If you already use rofi, wofi, dmenu, or fzf, you know the pattern.
+pikl is in the same family, with a few things those tools don't do well
+or at all:
+
+- **Structured items.** Input is JSON lines, not just flat strings. Each
+  item can have a label, sublabel, metadata fields, and an icon. Output
+  includes the full item with selection context, so downstream tools
+  don't have to re-parse anything. Plain text still works for simple
+  cases.
+
+- **Event hooks.** Shell commands that fire on lifecycle events. When
+  the cursor moves to a new item, when the user confirms, when they
+  cancel. A wallpaper picker is just pikl with an `on-hover` hook that
+  sets the wallpaper live as you scroll. Hooks are debounced and can
+  feed data back into the menu.
+
+- **Vim keybindings.** Not just j/k. Normal mode with `gg`, `G`,
+  `H/M/L`, `Ctrl+D/U`, marks, named registers, visual line select.
+  Insert mode for filtering. Tab to switch modes, Escape to close.
+
+- **Streaming.** Items can arrive over time. The list populates
+  progressively as a slow command produces output. Useful for recursive
+  finds, network queries, or anything that takes a while.
+
+- **Multi-select with registers.** Select multiple items (Space to
+  toggle, V for visual line mode). Group selections into named registers
+  like vim yanking.
+
+- **Filtering that goes beyond fuzzy.** Fuzzy by default, but also exact
+  (`'term`), regex (`/pattern/`), inverse (`!term`), and field-scoped
+  (`meta.size:2.4MB`). Chain filters with `|`. Full PCRE2-style regex
+  with lookaround and capture groups.
+
+- **Table mode.** Display items as aligned columns. Pipe in CSV or TSV
+  and get a sortable, filterable table. Handy for process lists, log
+  entries, or anything columnar.
+
+- **Sessions.** `--session name` remembers your filter, scroll position,
+  and selections across invocations. Close pikl, reopen it, pick up
+  where you left off.
+
+- **IPC.** While pikl is running, external scripts can push or remove
+  items, change the filter, or read the current selection over a Unix
+  socket. Makes live-updating dashboards possible.
+
+- **Watched sources.** Point pikl at a directory and the list updates
+  as files are added or removed. No restart needed.
+
+- **TUI and GUI.** Runs in your terminal (ratatui) or as a floating
+  overlay on Wayland (layer-shell) and X11. Auto-detects your
+  environment.
+
+## Building
+
+```sh
+cargo build --workspace
+cargo test --workspace
+```
+
+Requires Rust stable. The repo includes a `rust-toolchain.toml` that
+pins the version and pulls in rust-analyzer + clippy.
+
+## Platform Support
+
+| Platform | Frontend | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| Linux (Wayland) | GUI (layer-shell overlay) | Planned |
+| Linux (X11) | GUI | Planned |
+| Linux | TUI | Planned |
+| macOS | GUI | Planned |
+| macOS | TUI | Planned |
+| Window | GUI | Low Priority |
+
+## License
+
+MIT