On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
2009/10/21 Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com>:
(1) * removing urlbar/searchbar and using dmenu instead
I'm not sure if this is so attractive, since dmenu does not support x paste
(without a patch) and one always finds oneself (or at least I do) cutting
and pasting into the searchbar. The ultimate solution, it seems to me, is
to have dmenu support x paste in vanilla. This strikes me as superior to an
"in-surf" solution (which uses GtkWhatever) for a number of reasons.
(a) It keeps the code simple (on the surf side that is; dmenu will
need
to change).
(b) Other web-based activities (smart prefixes in particular)
could benefit from a dmenu + x paste. For example, I have a
surf-googlesearch.sh script which runs dmenu after parsing my user
input
from dmenu. It would be nice to x paste into the dmenu rather than
typing out a given google search (e.g. when one is searching
someone's
odd name.)
(c) In general, I like the xprop interface and allowing applications
other
than surf to interact with surf (which is what your new _SURF_FIND
feature
allows--which is great--which is why we need dmenu to get patched!)
There is sselp(1) at http://tools.suckless.org/sselp which reads
current selection and prints it to stdout, hence enables you to
integrate it into dmenu's cache or calling surf `sselp` directly.
There shouldn't be a real need to paste something interactively into
surf or dmenu really.
Kind regards,
Anselm
And FWIW (sorry to double post) xclip -o | xclip -sel clip seems to do the same
thing that ssel
is meant to do.
Peter
