Greetings. On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:27:24 +0100 Rob <robpill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Attached is a patch which gives st the ability to spit out its current > screen text to another program. This can be added under shortcuts in > config.h, e.g.: > > > static Shortcut shortcuts[] = { > ... > { MODKEY, 'u', externalpipe, { .s = "xurls | dmenu -l 10 | xargs open" > } }, > }; > > Where xurls[1] is a script that pulls out urls from the text, then I can > pick one in dmenu and open[2] it in a browser. > > If this doesn't qualify as core-st I'll happily stick it on the patches > page. Feedback welcome.
Please provide it as a patch on the wiki. I have something similar, but for the selected text (where double‐click selection is handy) so the clipboard text is sent to a similar »open« application. This is a bit more universal in the X11 environment. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann