Optimally, you could write a urlsh or something, and leave everyone else
alone. The shell could do substitutions on URLs just like they do on
wildcards etc, and the applications would not need to be rewritten, plus
you wouldn't add bloat to those of us who don't want this in the system...
Laurence
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Keith Stevenson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> >
> > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that
> > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with
> > the following two sorts of command lines:
> >
> > mutt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/
> >
> > These of course come from the 'copy link location' available in
> > most browsers. When pasted into most Unix commands (with the
> > exception of fetch and lynx, of course) the result is something
> > that just doesn't work. This got me thinking, should all commands
> > know how to take an URL, and 'do the right thing'? Could this
> > be made easy by providing a standard URL parsing library that
> > all commands could use for parsing?
>
> Ick. If I wanted this kind of integration I would run Windows, KDE, or GNOME
> instead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment.
>
> In my opinion, the "URLification" of the user environment would be a negative
> unless there were a very easy way to turn it completely off.
>
> Regards,
> --Keith Stevenson--
>
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> Keith Stevenson
> System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
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