-is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for
-.BR dwm (1).
-It manages huge numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
-.P
-dmenu reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin and creates a menu.
-When the user selects an item or enters any text and presses Return, their
-choice is printed to stdout and dmenu terminates.
+is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline\-separated items from
+stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed
+to stdout and dmenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those
+matching the tokens in the input.