clipbrowse

Langue: en

Version: 2005-10-20 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

clipbrowse - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.

USAGE

# ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL text is messy) $ clipbrowse

Remember that many browsers will load things that don't look like URL's... for example Firefox does a Google ``I'm feeling lucky''. This means you can have any text in your clipboard and `clipbrowse`.

MOTIVATION

It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it. Firefox, for example, automatically creates a new tab and loads the page when you invoke it from the command line. Already we've saved a Ctrl+T and a Shift+Insert. When you consider the parallelizing (that your browser will be actively loading the page while you're Alt+Tabbing to it), you've squeaked out a little more.

Maybe I'm just a freak, but I like shaving out wasted time like that.

X+FIREFOX MOTIVATION

It seems like Firefox (currently) isn't very smart about the X selections. If your data is in the ``buffer'' or ``primary'' selection, it will find it every time. But if it's in ``clipboard'' or ``secondary'', it won't.

When I understand all of this better I might submit some kind of bug report or patch to Firefox, but for now this script puts the love on me just fine.

CONFIGURATION

The environment variable $BROWSER will override the default launching command. If you have a %s in the line, it will be replaced with the url. if not, the url will be appended at the end.

The default is `firefox -remote ``openURL(%s,new-tab)''`.

AUTHOR

Ryan King <rking@sharpsaw.org> =head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005. Ryan King. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>