Hello, list. I had a goal, which was to use surf as a dedicated browser that lives on the same desktop as my terminal emulator in which I vim. I wanted to have this dedicated browser as a spot to browse godoc on-demand as a result of triggering go-doc-browser in vim-go.
I wanted to be sure that subsequent executions of go-doc-browser all opened in the same window. I wanted to be able to override css so as to mellow the blinding-white appearance of godoc. Surf looked like a good fit. Reading the docs and poking around with xprop I came to a solution. Thanks to Andrew Gallant for his work to communicate with X without using a lick of CGO. <https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgbutil>. This is the official announcement of surfsticker, a wrapper utility for starting instances of surf that are "stuck" to an identifier chosen on startup. For example, if I "surfsticker -sticker foo https://foo.example.com";, I will create a single surf window. If I "surfsticker -sticker bar https://bar.example.com";, I will open a second surf window. If I then "surfsticker -sticker foo https://baz.example.com"; no third window will be opened. The original window that was displaying "foo.example.com" will change to displaying "baz.example.com". "bar.example.com" would be unaffected. Find surfsticker at <https://github.com/alrs/surfsticker>. --- Lars Lehtonen
