Hi Rob!
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:56:15PM +0000, Rob wrote:
>
> 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"
> } },
> };
IMHO it makes sense here to use `xargs -r`, otherwise hitting escape in
dmenu results in calling `open` without argument, which does not make
much sense.
> 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.
Very cool, thanks for writing this. I wanted to hack something
equivalent to [1] during 30C3, which I won't now because this is much
cooler :)
