On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings. > > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:58:39 +0100 Raphaël Proust <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Calvin Morrison <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 29 March 2013 14:31, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> […] >> > >> > While I find many of those features useless, some of them are plain >> > cool, and are innovative. Why are we stuck with a text terminal when >> > we aren't using a tty most of the time? Sure simple text modes should >> > always be supported but additional features are cool. I'd love to be >> > able do an easy ls and be able to see my picture previews, why not? >> > It' s not terribly complicated and it sure is useful. >> >> >> I also like the idea of not having a pure-text interaction with the >> computer, but Terminology is definitely pushing things too far. It's >> hard to have a good middle ground. >> >> Alternatively, you could set up plumber and have your terminal be as >> smart as acme: left-click on a .jpg/png/gif/whatever opens an image >> viewer. It separates the two concept (ls and preview) and is dead >> simple. Bonus points: because the two concepts are separate, you can >> have the plumbing rules independent of your terminal so you can set up >> different dispatching easily. > > That’s what I do, too. For now this is a script run on Mod + o in dwm, > which does some regexp parsing on the string and calls sxiv and surf‐ > open.sh accordingly.
Anywhere on the intertubes where this script can be found? > > It would be nice to have some project to gather interesting regexp > parsers and opener scripts that make the suckless life more efficient. > > What are you guys using as a plumber in daily work? I sometime run the actual plumber (from plan9port) (whenever I'm in acme). Otherwise, my Mod+o is bound (via xbindkeys) to surf. (I haven't bothered setting up a full plumbing, but I probably should. And will.) -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
